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Einstein is a great mind. His importance is greatly overblown by pop culture and politics. Outstanding mind, but not unique. He built small bricks on shoulders
by Svoka 5y ago
Einstein is a great mind. His importance is greatly overblown by pop culture and politics. Outstanding mind, but not unique. He built small bricks on shoulders of titans and with lots of help from his co authors. Would he be born 50 years earlier, none of his discoveries were made.
Anyway. This is outside the topic. Every person who does physics cares about "fundamental truths"
But even such great minds as Einstein build their models understanding limits of the model, in best case scenario.
- zeven7 5y agoThis is an easy and naive view of Einstein. Would you argue the same for Newton? The truth is special relativity was going to be discovered soon regardless, general relativity was a leap that required a leader as unique as Einstein, Newton, Galileo. Of course he had a lot of help from Hilbert. I don't consider collaborating on a discovery as grounds to dismiss a scientist as "not unique".