Did Sklansky say he Could have won a Nobel?

[aLOWdAkING]

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I see similarities with a previous Nobel winner.

Einstein: E=mc2
Sklansky: 2+2=4

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HAHA!

[TransientR]

The Nobel Prize for Literature may be the easiest to get, because it is almost never given to the greatest writers. In fact, many in the literary world consider it almost a badge of mediocrity (even though some politic for it anyway).

Frank

[Sponger15SB]

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How would one know this?

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Obviously you aren't smart enough to win a nobel prize.

[TransientR]

LMAO!!!

Perfect post [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Frank

[nate1729]

A mathy friend I trust told me that an Economics Nobel was given for a result that was essentially a simple fixed-point theorem (Banach, I think.) Enough to make Sklansky's comment seem a perfectly reasonable thing to say, if not over-humble.

--Nate

[MortalNuts]

The thing is, it's either an incredibly silly remark or a reasonably apt one, depending on what exactly he said.

I have known multiple Nobel laureates (in physics and chemistry). All were very bright. But I have also known other people who really were a lot smarter. Most (but not all) of these were physics or astrophysics faculty at good schools. Getting a Nobel depends on so many things -- dedication, chosen field, creativity, luck -- that I suggest that no one, no matter how bright, can say on the basis of intellectual firepower alone, "I would have had a greater than 50% chance to win a Nobel prize in physics."

cheers,

mn

[Zeno]

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I often look back at the different crossroads in my life and wonder what "could have been" if I had made different decisions and had applied myself to pure science.


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Everyone has at least a few crossroads that loom on the backside of life's path and the ‘what ifs’ of the different possibilities can make for interesting discussions, however futile and speculative they become.

If I had gone on to do the PhD my advisor asked me to do, I could today be better known, at least in the Science community, and certainly have more published articles etc. But is not all of this just empty wishing and rhetorical posturing?

The present is where life is to be had, not in the past, nor in wishful dreams or the hazy unknowable 'might have beens'.

-Zeno

[fimbulwinter]

i could have been the most successful supermodel in the history of the world. I chose the intellectual path.

don't hate me cos im so beautiful.

fim

[Yeknom58]

You've gotta be joking right?

So did you like know these guys when they were 13 or I guess their bios were so complete that you knew their mental state at 13. This makes you sound a bit foolish in my opinion.

I still think you're joking though.

And by the way, I not calling you a loser because clearly your very very successful in your field but, I generally hear this type of excuse, " (At that age I stopped studying.)" from losers and dropouts.

[Eihli]

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