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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Einstein: The lone genius is pure mythology
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Re: Einstein: The lone genius is pure mythology
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.
"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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[i]"I always believed in being myself"- Thelonious Monk[/i]