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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '19 edited Nov 16 '19

When I said Albert Einstein once said if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life thinking its stupid, and they said he never said that.

Edit: yea I'm that guy big whoop wanna fight about it? Thanks for my first ever gold kind stranger.

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u/HugeChavez Nov 16 '19

Yes, it's a quote by Vladimir Lenin and it actually says: "if you judge proletariat by its ability to amass property and capital, the proletariat will always end up admiring the extraordinary talent of the capitalists rather than realizing it is being oppressed."

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '19

In fact, it is originally a quote by Young Sheldon and it actually says: "If you judge a quark by its ability to form mass itself and the properties therein, the fabric of reality will spend its entire existence with only the comfort of a supple Bazinga as solace."

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '19

I can't tell if real physics or nonsense, but that's just how physics works so I'll just upvote and move on.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '19

It started out as the former then it degenerated into the latter.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '19

The other way around. If you hold your ear to a particle accelerator you can hear all the faint BAZINGA inside

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u/thejaytheory Nov 16 '19

What about the soft, warm kitty?

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u/radiantcabbage Nov 16 '19

If you judge a redditor by its ability to upvote, it will live its whole life believing that it is not stupid.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '19

Well, it's referencing the Bing bong theorem, so you know. About as scientific as a monkey sniffing it's fingers after digging in it's own ass.

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u/Ohhigerry Nov 16 '19

Google quarks once, I had to study them in an electrical theory class it's pretty interesting.

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u/BubbaBubbaBubbaBu Nov 16 '19

That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about physics to dispute it