It's possible that's a distortion/misquote. I found where he said "I would simply say, ‘Listen, buddy, if I could tell you in a minute what I did, it wouldn’t b

It's possible that's a distortion/misquote. I found where he said "I would simply say, ‘Listen, buddy, if I could tell you in a minute what I did, it wouldn’t be worth the Nobel Prize", which is about time, not intellectual ability. [https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/5020-4 https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral...]