This reminds me of a Quora answer[0] about what Mathematics graduate students do all day. "And, indeed, you are lucky! After a hundred years or so, your idea (

This reminds me of a Quora answer[0] about what Mathematics graduate students do all day. "And, indeed, you are lucky! After a hundred years or so, your idea (along with a bunch of other ideas) leads to the development of aquarium air pumps, an essential tool in the rapidly growing field of research on artificial goldfish habitats. Yay!" [0] - https://www.quora.com/What-do-grad-students-in-math-do-all-day https://www.quora.com/What-do-grad-students-in-math-do-all-d...