James Speth is a Professor of Law at the Vermont Law School and served as Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies from 1999 to 2009. He co-founded the Natural Resources Defense Council and founded the World Resources Institute. Wikipedia has a good biography, and here is another.
As Einstein supposedly said:
ReplyDelete"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe"
"As Einstein supposedly said .."
ReplyDeleteSupposedly ... but probably not. It doesn't even sound like Einstein.
Alice Calaprice edited the Ultimate Quotable Einstein. Page 478 finds the quote in the "Probably Not by Einstein" category.
Thomas Jefferson has far more fake quotes attributed to him than Einstein does. But AE has quite a few.
ReplyDelete"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
Robert A. Heinlein
"Against stupidity the gods Themselves contend in vain"
Friedrich Schiller
Do I detect a common theme?
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