It reminds me of a story about Max Planck [1] being told by his advisor to not pursue theoretical physics because it was only the small details that were left t

It reminds me of a story about Max Planck [1] being told by his advisor to not pursue theoretical physics because it was only the small details that were left to work out. Of course, he went on to help start the revolution in quantum physics. > in this field, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few unimportant holes [1] https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/2129/who-said-that-essentially-everything-in-theoretical-physics-had-already-been-dis https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/2129/who-said-that-e...