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  • 2019-08-22 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Albert Einstein Say, ‘The Only Reason For Time Is So That Everything Doesn’t Happen At Once’? (en)
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  • An image shared on Facebook credits theoretical physicist Albert Einstein with saying, The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once. Verdict: False There is no evidence that Einstein ever said or wrote this saying. It may actually come from a story written by science fiction writer Ray Cummings. Fact Check: Best known for his contributions to the field of physics, Einstein famously developed the theory of general relativity , which dealt with gravity and the distortion of space-time. However, the Daily Caller found no evidence that this specific quote about time originated with Einstein. A search of the Einstein Archives Online , which houses around 80,000 documents related to the theoretical physicist, turned up no record of the expression. It does appear in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein , a preeminent text on sayings from the theoretical physicist, where it falls under the Probably Not By Einstein section. (RELATED: Did Einstein Say, ‘Creativity Is Contagious. Pass It On’?) According to Quote Investigator , the quote may actually come from Cummings’ 1919 story, The Girl in the Golden Atom, which was originally published in a magazine, but later expanded into a novel. In 1921, he also used the expression in another story. (en)
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