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To play devil's advocate, Einstein did a lot of work after his major breakthroughs that didn't amount to much. To steal a line from Roger Waters, he was a "spe
by CuriouslyC 10y ago
To play devil's advocate, Einstein did a lot of work after his major breakthroughs that didn't amount to much. To steal a line from Roger Waters, he was a "spent force." To quote Einstein, "You cannot solve a problem at the level of thought that created it." This suggests that in order to smooth the wrinkles between general relativity and quantum theory, someone would have to come along with a new way of thinking.
With that being said, I think wisdom is one area that (assuming the right mind-set) can continue to grow richer with age. I think it would result in much better politicians, judges, teachers and similar roles that involve application or imparting of wisdom.
- xiaoma 10y agoBeethoven wrote Ode to Joy long after he was dismissed as an irrelevant, deaf old man.
- kiba 10y agoThis suggests that in order to smooth the wrinkles between general relativity and quantum theory, someone would have to come along with a new way of thinking. There's string theory but it's still unproven stuff. I failed to see how new scientists will actually solve the problem beyond having fresh new minds to look at it from a different direction. Perhaps we don't need old scientists to die, but just new scientists.