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> Show me anything revolutionary that was done by a group of people that weren't obsessed to the point of neglecting the rest of their life Watson and Crick di
by human20190310 7y ago
> Show me anything revolutionary that was done by a group of people that weren't obsessed to the point of neglecting the rest of their life
Watson and Crick didn't work very hard, but managed to infer the structure of DNA from data that their competitors had well before them (necessarily, because Watson and Crick basically swiped it).
EDIT: And for that matter Rosalind Franklin, whose data they used, had an active life outside of work as well.
- AndrewKemendo 7y agoSorry no, Watson was completely obsessed. I doubt their "toxic" work environment would be lauded today. The whole point here is not to find one or two nitpicking examples of some lounging geniuses that stumbled into something but rather the larger trend that massive impacts take narrow person to work. Sometimes that even allows for you to take a bike ride everyday. The point is the same.