Nobel prize

[gsh]

Why do I find it unsettling that an astronomer younger than I am won the Nobel Prize?

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I'm reminded of a quote...

[arashinomoui.livejournal.com]

“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

[dckermit.livejournal.com]

Cuz it means you're a slacker?


Or that's the worry. But remember, every man who reaches great heights stands on the shoulders of hundreds whose names will never be known.

[tamnonlinear.livejournal.com]

If it's any comfort, in astronomical terms, the difference between your ages isn't statistically significant.

[gsh]

*snerk*

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Heck, in astronomical terms, gsh got the Nobel Prize put around his neck...