Quote: Everything should be as simple as it can be, but not simpler (antedating attrib Albert Einstein 1950)

[Shapiro, Fred]

Thanks to Garson O'Toole and Victor Steinbok for their first-rate work on this quotation and the other impressive postings they have been making.  The methodological discussion of Google Books techniques has also been very insightful.  I have used some of these dating methods, but got new ideas from this discussion.

Fred Shapiro

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