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Albert Einstein said that if he had an hour to solve a problem he would spend 55 minutes defining it.

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REFUTED
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Is it true that Albert Einstein said that if he had an hour to solve a problem he would spend 55 minutes defining it?

No. Wikiquote's Albert Einstein page reproduces the '55 minutes defining the problem' variants and states there is no indication Einstein said this, tracing a similar line to an unnamed Yale professor in a 1966 manufacturing article. Two later sources (a Hansard speech and a talk abstract) repeat the attribution to Einstein without providing evidence.

Verdict: REFUTED · 2 sources for, 1 against · Last checked

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Evidence for · 2
Size of the House of Lords
2021
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Size of the House of Lords. (2021). hansard.parliament.uk. https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2021-05-18/debates/4A8CE6EC-1B8B-4BC3-AFCF-B34E6CCA46DF

Evidence against · 1
Albert Einstein
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Albert Einstein. (n.d.). en.wikiquote.org. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein

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Plan Like Einstein
2023
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Plan Like Einstein. (2023). doi.org. https://doi.org/10.5446/66695

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