Still, Mendeleev supplied a useful moral "I worked hard all my life, and [all] they say [is]: genius,genius, genius." (Michael Gordin says this is a bit disingenuous tho', since no one had worked harder than Mendeleev to confer that label upon himself.)
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Replying to @philipcball
Plus atomic physics wasn’t really his field. More extremely, Lorentz never really understood that special relativity was kinematic and a matter of space-time rather than dynamic and a property of matter. One should not expect more than one miracle from someone.
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Replying to @EmanuelDerman
I like that last line! I even wonder whether sometimes one profound insight can actually preclude the acceptance of subsequent ones from others... [Insert your favourite example here]
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Replying to @philipcball
I think that’s true. Sometimes one gets enamored of one’s own processes and ideas and can’t let go.
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Worth mentioning, though, that some people actually do have multiple miracles to their credit. Poincare, for example, turned them out on an almost industrial scale. Humbling to think about, really. Puts even the most dazzling modern masters in their place.
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Replying to @MathPrinceps @EmanuelDerman
Fairly said, and it's time Poincaré got his due.
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