count angels on pinheads

Verb

 * 1) To focus on getting correct details which are largely irrelevant.
 * 2) * Date unknown: United States Congress House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Hearings, p1315
 * It adds to the trend that law schools and law journals are no longer content to count angels on pinheads.
 * 1) * 1951, The John Dewey Society, the Philosophy of Education Society (U.S.), and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign College of Education, Educational Theory, p185
 * In requesting that a closer look be given to hypothetical thinking and its role in the solving of problems, I do not suggest that counting angels on pinheads is a fruitful educational exercise. Thinking about the actual is one aspect of analytical thinking.
 * 1) * 1951, The John Dewey Society, the Philosophy of Education Society (U.S.), and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign College of Education, Educational Theory, p185
 * In requesting that a closer look be given to hypothetical thinking and its role in the solving of problems, I do not suggest that counting angels on pinheads is a fruitful educational exercise. Thinking about the actual is one aspect of analytical thinking.

Translations

 * Catalan: discutir sobre el sexe dels àngels
 * Finnish: laskea neulan kärjellä tanssivia enkeleitä
 * French:
 * Italian: discutere del sesso degli angeli
 * Polish: przegapiać sedno
 * Portuguese: discutir o sexo dos anjos, debater o sexo dos anjos
 * Spanish: