>To be creative, scientists need libraries and laboratories and the company of other scientists; certainly a quiet and untroubled life is a help This is contra

>To be creative, scientists need libraries and laboratories and the company of other scientists; certainly a quiet and untroubled life is a help This is contradicted by Richard Hamming in his lecture on creativity. He points out a famous, tranquil, well-equipped environment, viz. the Institute for Advanced Study, where only very few breakthroughs have been made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlTybZvds0U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlTybZvds0U