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Re:Late Bloomers: Why do we equate genius with precocity? (2... by Scuds on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @07:52PM (#8230224)
I definitely remember seeing that in one of Feynman's autobiographies like 'Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman'

Einstein to Feynman: "Please explain things slowly"

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Re:Late Bloomers: Why do we equate genius with precocity? (2... by baddox on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @09:04PM (#8230411)
Feynman seemed like a particularly quick thinker. I suspect a fair number of "geniuses" would need him to slow down.
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Re:Late Bloomers: Why do we equate genius with precocity? (2... by auxbuss on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @08:22AM (#8231742)
It's interesting to compare the two approaches (and characters) of Feynman and his close colleague (with whom he shared the Nobel), Julian Schwinger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Schwinger#Schwinger_and...

You could call Schwinger "slow", but he "saw" very deeply. After all, he found and corrected problems with the Dirac equation.

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