What does it mean?
The joke is that human stupidity is so huge it seems even more certainly endless than the universe.
Key vocabulary
- infinite
- without any end or limit
Who said it?
Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955).
These exact words are widely credited to Albert Einstein, but they don’t appear in their known work. They may be a later paraphrase or a misattribution.
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