The point is not whether he said it or not.

The question is what he was doing. And what he did.

I'm afraid that that side of the question is a black pit of ignorance as far as this thread is concerned.

In any case, the man's dead and gone. So I don't much mind if he said some oddball things. I think it is silly to conclude from that one remark that he spent fifty-odd years of work to make it happen with no other motivation.

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