The mystery of the miracle year
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- If you’re working on the right problem at the right time, you’re going to come up with a lot of important solutions really quickly. This is especially true if these solutions line up behind each other like in a tech tree. You need calculus in order to express gravity, so it’s no wonder that Newton was the first to discover both.
- I still don’t think I fully understand why these miracle years keep showing up in the lives of great scientists, except that it has something to do with them being young, intensely concentrated on right problems, and open to fresh perspectives.