Who in the world has super taste, a feel for and way of picking subjects that, decades in the future, will seem prescient, as though they had a line on the future?
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I remember seeing Bill Gates say "Richard Feynman". And in his writing Feynman says heroesque things about Einstein, Oppenheimer, and Bethe. I don't know for Oppenheimer and Bethe, but Einstein certainly expressed Newton as a hero. Which is a pretty interesting endpoint.
(Just as an example, starting from someone many might name as an example.)