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 Post subject: Einstein: The lone genius is pure mythology
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Einstein, contrary to the popular narrative, wasn't a lone genius, but rather only achieved the successes that he did because of his friends, colleagues, professors, and the larger community of physicists, astronomers, and mathematicians that he was a part of. Without them, including his study-buddy friends Conrad Habicht and Maurice Solovine, pictured alongside him in 1903, his ideas, brilliant as they were, would likely have gone nowhere.

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 Post subject: Re: Einstein: The lone genius is pure mythology
PostPosted: Sun Oct 27, 2024 5:44 am 
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Thank you Barbra for sharing this article!
"Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed" as Lavoisier said. We depend on our education, our surroundings, our instruction, our personality; it would be illusory to consider oneself an absolute creator, it only exists in myths and beliefs.

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