0n (18 Jan 05) WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to CINDY HAGLUND...

->  RS> From what I gather, it's because he couldn't really understand it.

->  Someone famous is quoted online somewhere Sorry I Can't Remember
-> where, how if something can't be explained in such a way so anybody
-> (even with very little science education) can understand it (that is
-> in reality terms not fantasy)-  the person doing the 'explaining' doesn't
-> really understand it too well him or herself.

 WC> Einstein said something to the effect that if one couldn't
 WC> explain a theory to a child it was likely wrong.


 I just knew there was a shorter simpler version to this. IIRC I read
it on Skeptics Tank. And it's possible I was reading Einstein quotes
at the time. I guess I ought to go look again.

Cindy

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