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On solving one's first unsolved problem: "For the first time in my life, I had in my possession something that no one else in the world had. I was able to say something new about the universe." "If you experience this feeling once, you will want to go back and do it again."pic.twitter.com/0dqk9TljMb
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For the first half of my childhood, we didn't have cable TV, and one thing I could do with my time was browse a set of encyclopedias... I got a big thrill from minor personal discoveries. I still get that from reading. Those facts don't belong to me, but they feel like they do
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Yes! I have been lucky enough to be in that position 3 times. It is the most marvelous feeling imaginable: like being in the presence of an unrelated five year old who can solve differential equations, or play like Heifetz - This must be preserved and shown to the World!
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What did you figure out?
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Doesn’t Feynman write about this somewhere, about telling his wife something like, “Tomorrow I’ll publish it and tell the world, but tonight I’m the only one who understands how X works”?
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yeah it's pretty fuckin' great I really wish there were still unexplored lands in the world to discover, but science is the closest I'll ever get to feel like Lewis and Clark I reckon
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though if elon wants a microbiologist for his mars mission...
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@actualisingT like your practical philosophy insight today!
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I thought that would be the case but when I was doing the work for my math PhD and knew things nobody else had known I wasn’t all that excited. I wanted to be! One reason why I didn’t stay in the field.
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... maybe... but it’s a very fine line 
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