Re:Retire This Idea: Scientific Knowledge Structured as “Lit...
by dalke on Monday May 04, 2015 @07:23PM
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Umm, Newton? The latter part of his life was research in alchemy and biblical chronology.
If you say that Newton "worked on a single idea [his] entire life", then what was the idea?
In any case, the observation is incomplete. All great scientists slept at least once a month doesn't mean that sleeping at least once a month is a distinctive attribute of great scientists.
If most great scientists work on a given topic all of their scientific career, is that not mostly because most scientists do the same?
If you say that Newton "worked on a single idea [his] entire life", then what was the idea?
In any case, the observation is incomplete. All great scientists slept at least once a month doesn't mean that sleeping at least once a month is a distinctive attribute of great scientists.
If most great scientists work on a given topic all of their scientific career, is that not mostly because most scientists do the same?