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0 pointsDonaldFisk8y ago0 comments

There's no evidence Einstein ever said that: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/04/06/fish-climb/

And some fish can climb trees: https://www.thesprucepets.com/some-fish-can-climb-trees-3969...

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andyidsinga8y ago· 1 in thread

he misattributed - it was actually Mark Twain :) :) :)

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. - Albert Einstein - Mark Twain

(How Twain predicted Einstein to say this, I'll never know.)

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