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Somehow, I doubt that Murray Gell-Mann, or any Nobel Prize-winning physicist could have been a slouch. Working one's ass off is a given at that level. And yet
by xiaoma 16y ago
Somehow, I doubt that Murray Gell-Mann, or any Nobel Prize-winning physicist could have been a slouch. Working one's ass off is a given at that level. And yet, even to Gell-Mann, Feynman was impossibly capable of solving difficult problems. Just putting in the hours and effort might be enough to make a great physicist, but it won't guarantee abilities on par with Feynman.
- starkfist 16y agoDidn't Gell-Mann say that the thing Feynman was truly the best at was inventing anecdotes about himself? You never know that much about other physicists because they generally don't publish multiple volumes of their own memoirs...
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