Just about everything that we now call a "breakthrough" was basically some guy or gal slighting or outright destroying the academic legacies of everyone else in their department, and their field in general. Reality takes no prisoners
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Wow, love this!
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"emotionally stable"
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Life history of William Hamilton (kin selection) is one solid data point for your theory
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Also if you look at the workplace problems in Science (domineering bosses, journals profiteering etc) it further shows how silly the mid-2010s panic about tech as a horrible/toxic industry was.
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A good heuristic for a theory-ish undergrad project: replicate some cute result with a few personal touches. A good heuristic for a theory PhD project: how many random fields (that ideally dislike one another) can I attempt to stitch together in one thesis.
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Thomas Kuhn argues that it’s both, and that both modes are important. (I agree with him.)
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