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41 Post author: Mass_Driver 23 December 2010 09:05AM

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 09 February 2011 09:15:12AM 0 points [-]

"otherwise ordinary people"

Are you really sure about this?

Comment author: MichaelVassar 09 February 2011 04:30:27PM 1 point [-]

I don't mean average, but yes, ordinary, as in typical physics PhD from a good but not necessarily very top program. Darwin and Smith seem to have been such people to start, but aspired to more. Possibly Socrates and Einstein. No Newtons required, nor even Faradays or Fields Medalists.

Comment author: keefe 11 April 2012 04:26:07AM 0 points [-]

even the most extraordinary eat, shit, sleep, fuck, become addicted and I also feel that merging needs is the key to cooperation