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There's also the quote from Einstein: "A person who has not made his great contribution to science before the age of 30 will never do so." I rather dislike it,
by interroboink 4y ago
There's also the quote from Einstein: "A person who has not made his great contribution to science before the age of 30 will never do so."
I rather dislike it, and am glad Einstein was wrong about various things (:
- JJMcJ 4y agoEinstein published General Relativity when he was 35, and after that he did important work but nothing quite as world shaking as the period 1905-15. So he may have been projecting his own disappointment into a general statement.
- 3a2d29 4y agoMakes all of us (since we will all be 30+ one day if not alright) happy to know that Einstein wasted a lot of time trying extremely hard to disprove quantum mechanics because "God doesn't play dice with the universe."
- JJMcJ 4y agoAlso Unified Field Theory, which has had very little substantive progress since his time.
- daniel-cussen 4y agoWell that's interesting. So what does that mean, has to have been published by 30, or just the successful experiment carried out before 30?