Something so exciting

Abel wrote a monumental work on elliptic functions which, however, was not discovered until after his death. When asked how he developed his mathematical abilities so rapidly, he replied "by studying the masters, not their pupils."


On this note, I did tell the strange people from youth that 90% of the arxiv is nonsense. Let me clarify, I read all kinds of papers. If you want to remember the comment that I only check Bousso and Douglas Stanford and so on, remember Abel's remark.

When I was young, one of the principles close to my heart: everyone except Einstein is a moron. This is probably exactly how Einstein thinks of it, but he might have changed his mind when he found out about Feynman.