Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!1.us.feeder.erje.net!newspeer1.nac.net!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 23:15:05 -0500 Message-ID: <58D9F1C7.10D5@ix.netcom.com> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 21:16:55 -0800 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Albert Einstein said..."If you oppose my theories, you're..." References: <58CE3E7B.997@ix.netcom.com> <58D81470.13C1@ix.netcom.com> <58D8BA87.2ACE@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 170327-3, 03/27/2017), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Lines: 58 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 X-Trace: sv3-bdckcXuRu0RmsqBJtM8g7haa1uWAggTsNHmLhFU/T1gdAYOjVUmY8bPMsmBAmBYYeWVvmxxL/6D6oZK!VcM+TSCthOHEIfQIegratch0c5JVl63jMfIS72Of+bF5C0ehTme6ntxDJp0W02H0Ssu0G5p/yhjR!D5AWqa2Oin8= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3275 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:625494 sci.physics.relativity:414310 Anon Y. Mouse wrote: > > On 3/27/2017 3:08 AM, The Starmaker wrote: > > Anon Y. Mouse wrote: > >> > >> On 3/26/2017 3:20 PM, The Starmaker wrote: > >>> Anon Y. Mouse wrote: > >>>> > >>>> On 3/19/2017 4:16 AM, The Starmaker wrote: > >>>>> Not everybody else...but according to Albert Einstein...'in his own words' he said: > >>>>> > >>>>> 'If you oppose my theories, you're an anti-semitic.' > >>>> > >>>> It's pretty much the exact opposite: What he said was more like "If > >>>> you're anti-semitic, you may oppose my theories." > >>>> > >>>> First he claims "men of science" don't oppose his theories, leaving only > >>>> non-scientists. Scientists don't oppose his theories. > >>> > >>> > >>> What does this comment mean to you? > >>> > >>> "Even the physi > >>> cists who opposed my theory did so for > >>> political reasons" > >> > >> It appears to be a contradiction to say "men of science" don't oppose > >> him and then talk about physicists opposing him. But he mentions the > >> physicists oppose him for political reasons, so not for scientific > >> reasons. So he simply implied those so-called physicists weren't "men of > >> science", which makes sense, since opposing an idea for (any) political > >> reason certainly isn't science. > >> > >> Anyway, my point stands, he never stated anything like "If you oppose my > >> theories, you're anti-semitic." > > > > i didn't use ...quotes. > > > > Yes you did. > > In article with Message-ID: <58CE3E7B.997@ix.netcom.com> you wrote > (using the single quote mark): > > >> Not everybody else...but according to Albert Einstein...'in his own words' he said: > >> > >> 'If you oppose my theories, you're an anti-semitic.' > >> > > Liar. http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp Rule 1. Use double quotation marks to set off a direct (word-for-word) quotation. I did not break Rule 1, I did not use double quotation marks.