In response to: Einstein’s Begonia
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July 2025
On the cover: Wilton Virgo ’00 and his classmates celebrate during the P-rade.
On the cover: Wilton Virgo ’00 and his classmates celebrate during the P-rade.
Evidently, the only things that propagate faster than Einstein’s begonia are light and misattributions of quotations to Einstein. According to “Einstein's Begonia” (June issue), Einstein once said, “Play is the highest form of research.” But The Ultimate Quotable Einstein (Princeton University Press, 2011, p. 482) classifies this remark with many others under the heading “Probably Not By Einstein.” Einstein might have agreed with what Yogi Berra supposedly said: “I really didn’t say everything I said.”