Who Said Insanity Is Doing the Samething Over and Over Again
„The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
Variously attributed also to Benjamin Franklin and Mark Twain. The earliest known occurrence, and probable origin, is from a 1981 text from Narcotics Anonymous: "Insanity is repeating the aforementioned mistakes and expecting different results." Cf. Rita Mae Brownish#Misattributed.
Misattributed
Variant: Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting unlike results.
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„The definition of insanity is doing the aforementioned thing over and over and expecting dissimilar results."
— Benjamin Franklin American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, a… 1706 - 1790
Misattributed to various people, including Albert Einstein and Marker Twain. An early occurrence was used as a didactics reference at University of California, Irvine in social science lectures in the later 1960s. Also found in a 1981 text from Narcotics Anonymous.
Misattributed
„Insanity is doing the aforementioned matter over and over again only expecting different results."
— Rita Mae Brown Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist 1944
Chocolate-brown did include this quote in her volume Sudden Death (Runted Books, New York, 1983), p. 68, but it appears she was only paraphrasing a quote that had already been written elsewhere. The earliest known appearance of a similar quote is the "approving version" of the Narcotics Bearding "Basic Text" released in November 1981, which included the quote "Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results." A PDF scan of the 1981 approval version tin exist plant here http://www.nauca.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/1981-11-Bones-Text-Approval-Form-White.pdf, with the quote appearing on p. 11 (p. 25 of the PDF), at the stop of the quaternary paragraph (which begins "Nosotros have a illness; progressive, incurable and fatal"). More in this article https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/23/same/ on Quote Investigator website.
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„I remember if I had my life to alive over once more, I'd do things a little unlike."
— Ty Cobb American baseball game histrion 1886 - 1961
Statement fabricated in 1961, as quoted in Voices from Cooperstown : Baseball's Hall of Famers Tell It Like It Was (1998) by Anthony J. Connor, p. 286
Context: I recall if I had my life to live over over again, I'd do things a little different. I was aggressive, perhaps likewise aggressive. Perchance I went as well far. I always had to be right in any argument I was in, I always had to exist first in everything. I do indeed remember I would accept done some things unlike. And if I had I believe I would accept had more friends.
„Nosotros practise not yet adequately understand the way in which the different environments in the earth take selected over time the genes which determine our capacity to practise different things."
— James D. Watson American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. 1928
To question genetic intelligence is not racism (2007)
Context: We do not nevertheless adequately sympathize the way in which the different environments in the world have selected over time the genes which determine our capacity to do different things. The overwhelming want of society today is to assume that equal powers of reason are a universal heritage of humanity. It may well be. Simply but wanting this to be the example is not enough. This is not science.
To question this is not to give in to racism. This is non a give-and-take about superiority or inferiority, it is about seeking to understand differences, about why some of us are dandy musicians and others slap-up engineers. It is very likely that at least some 10 to xv years will pass before we become an adequate understanding for the relative importance of nature versus nurture in the achievement of of import man objectives. Until so, we as scientists, wherever nosotros wish to place ourselves in this groovy debate, should take care in claiming what are unarguable truths without the support of evidence.
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