“Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not anything "magical" but the right attitude, the focus on nature's reality, the focus on asking the right questions, the willingness to try (and to discard) unconventional answers, the sensitive ear for phoniness, self-deception, bombast, and conventional but unproven assumptions.”
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Philip Warren Anderson
Philip Warren Anderson, born on December 13, 1923, is a renowned physicist. He made groundbreaking contributions to solid-state physics, particularly in the fields of electronic structure and magnetism. Anderson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977 for his research in low-temperature physics and superconducting theory. more
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Source: The Collected Papers of Stephen Smale