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Re: Explaining to a scientifically-innocent audience?
Subject:Re: Explaining to a scientifically-innocent audience? From:sinico -at- nbnet -dot- nb -dot- ca (H.Durstling) To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 13 Dec 2000 00:51:18 -0400
A more modest variant is attributed to Einstein: "If you can't explain it
to an eight year old, you don't understand it yourself."
Cheers
Hans Durstling
Moncton, Canada
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Kim McGarghan reports: <<And I've heard it via Kurt Vonnegut, _Cat's
>Cradle_, almost literally "Any scientist who cannot explain himself to an
>8-year-old child is a charlatan.">>
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