One byproduct of inequality: socially confident scholars who didn't care abt their reputation: Wittgenstein, B. Russell, Darwin (mostly Erasmus), Galton, De Broglie, etc. I've never met any scholar who, like Wittgenstein, didn't give a flying f**ck abt his/her standing.
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In human sciences: Henry Harpending was a rare recent example. “Balls of steel”, in the words of an anonymous colleague. In math/physics: guys like Atiyah and Penrose don’t seem to give a f*ck anymore. But yeah.
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