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In reply to the discussion: I Just Saw Something Really Sad. And Then I Got Angry. [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Honestly, getting all
about it isn't really a very good response. Einstein was a brilliant man who completely revolutionized our understanding of the relationship between matter, energy, space and time. To slap his name on every damn thing that comes down the pike to lend it some artificial undeserved air of authority, frankly, is offensive to the man's memory.

It would have been perfectly legit, although a broad assertion of a subjective opinion, to say "the definition of insanity is..." ... you also could have said "some say that the definition of insanity is..."
the most accurate presentation, of course, would have been something like "As the down-home twelve step aphorism states, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing yadda yadda yadda"
instead, Einstein gets dragged into it.