While we're waiting for Louis Schmier to get back to us on the status of the alleged Einstein quote about which Louis said "I will find it". Promise" (letter to TIPS, May 6, 2005), I can report some significant new sightings of it.
According to Louis, it goes " A lot of what can be counted doesn't count, and a lot of what counts can't be counted". Allen Esterson alerted me that _The Guardian_ published a letter on June 16, 2005, in which Paul Bonaventura quoted a version of it, saying "I favour Albert Einstein's advice: "Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted". I wrote to Mr. Bonaventura. He has no source. Next, I discovered that an author in the respected _British Medical Journal_ uses that quote as no less than the _title_ of a recent commentary and again, he has no source (I know, because I asked him). Even more grievous, a letter writer contributing a "Rapid Response" to the commentary supplies two more doubtful Einstein quotes, equally unsourced. So it will probably not come as a surprise to you that a third contributor, whose name you may find familiar, takes issue with all three quotations. So, Louis, any progress? Stephen McKee, M. (2004). Commentary: Not everything that counts can be counted; not everything that can be counted counts. _British Medical Journal_, 328, 153. [at http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/328/7432/153] Rapid Responses to the above at http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/328/7432/153 ___________________________________________________ Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. tel: (819) 822-9600 ext 2470 Department of Psychology fax: (819) 822-9661 Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lennoxville, QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at http://faculty.frostburg.edu/psyc/southerly/tips/index.htm _______________________________________________ --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
