attributed

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Attributed to Albert Einstein: “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 19, 2022

Attributed to José Montes de Oca, a ravishing, 4-foot-tall polychrome wood figure of St. Benedict of Palermo, son of freed Ethiopian slaves, seems poised to lift off into the stratosphere on voluminous gilt robes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2019

Attributed first to Rembrandt and later to Pieter de Hooch, the canvas was only identified as a Vermeer original in 1862.

From Fox News • May 16, 2019

Attributed to Isaac Newton but probably existed in some form earlier.

From Scientific American • Feb. 12, 2014

Note.—This edition includes six "Attributed Poems," but omits Hints from Horace, Transl. of Francesca of Rimini, and the Occasional Pieces first collected in the editions of 1831 and 1832-1833.

From The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley