"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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"The two most common things in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity."
(Apologies; I forget whom I'm quoting. --Russell Kent)

Einstein (supposedly).

Actually, the more accepted version of the quote is:

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity.

I've only ever seen that quote with the additional phrase: "and I'm not so
sure about the universe".

While the two quotes are similar, and I suppose Ellison's might have been
inspired by Einstein's, they are hardly semantically equivalent. I wouldn't
call the two quotes the same, or even different versions of the same quote.

Pete