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When Galileo dropped two weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, they put him in the history books. But when I do it, I get ‘detained by security’ for ‘injuring several tourists.’
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3154/
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The most disappointing part of school is taking a 101 class and making a bunch of deductions based on what you learn, and then taking the 201 and learning that other people had the same ideas first.
That’s good, it means you’re on the right track.
I dunno, I kind of enjoyed that. What is more disappointing is when those people thought of similar ideas but then made a very inconvenient way to describe them the “convention”, e.g the direction of electrical current or pi.
Nah its way worse when all of your ideas are wrong and in the complete opposite direction, better to think in the right direction and get confirmation that you are thinking correctly as you go
I once heard it took Robert Frost almost two years to write “the road not taken” well, with a little practice, I was able to write it ib a little less than two minutes!
When Faraday demonstrates his electric motor to his peers, everyone calls him a genius. When I do it, I get arrested for driving through the convention floor.
Poincaré? (I know, his insight somehow still came short of Einstein’s, but it’s interesting how close he came.)
