satt comments on Einstein's Superpowers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: satt 27 March 2014 05:53:47AM 1 point [-]

I would be extremely surprised if anyone who had more than a vague idea of what Einstein did claimed to be as smart as him with a straight face; even if someone I thought was actually in the same league as him said that, I'd assume they are in jest or out of their mind -- indeed because such a statement would pattern-match a crackpot.

Supporting your point of view is Lev Landau's list. Even as one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the 20th century, Landau ranked himself far below not only Einstein but also Newton, Bohr, Heisenberg, Dirac, & Schrödinger.