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Humility is very often correlated with smartness. I have seen this as a common quality in most great engineers and scientists: truth comes first.
by aarghh 16y ago
Humility is very often correlated with smartness. I have seen this as a common quality in most great engineers and scientists: truth comes first.
- mlinsey 16y agoI've noticed the same thing. My hunch is that the work involved to reach the pinnacle of human understanding in a certain subdiscipline makes one acutely aware of just how far they are from that same level of understanding in every other subdiscipline. On the other hand, high-IQ dilettantes often think they already know everything.