It might be apocryphal, but Einstein is often quoted as saying “a person who has not made their great contribution to science before the age of thirty will never do so”.
That was the guy who spent his 20’s screwing around and checks notes fighting the Nazis and spending years as a POW. I’m pretty sure that Einstein was specifically targeting this guy with that apocryphal quote.
Responding to the sentiment, if it is not a quote; So it would be cool if people were free to live lives of pursuing passionate knowledge for the sake of it from a very early age and had access to communities dedicated to thoughtfully forming minds with a support (super)structure that facilitated individual and collective explorative endeavors. And not where we live now, which is, of course, hell.
Real. I have so many creative pursuits that are permanently on the backburner in a “I’ll get to it one day” mode because I have to work a hectic job to keep myself and my partner housed. It’s really depressing. Work/Life balance is nigh impossible.
It might be apocryphal, but Einstein is often quoted as saying “a person who has not made their great contribution to science before the age of thirty will never do so”.
Roger Apéry proved his famous theorem when he was 63.
That was the guy who spent his 20’s screwing around and checks notes fighting the Nazis and spending years as a POW. I’m pretty sure that Einstein was specifically targeting this guy with that apocryphal quote.
Responding to the sentiment, if it is not a quote; So it would be cool if people were free to live lives of pursuing passionate knowledge for the sake of it from a very early age and had access to communities dedicated to thoughtfully forming minds with a support (super)structure that facilitated individual and collective explorative endeavors. And not where we live now, which is, of course, hell.
Real. I have so many creative pursuits that are permanently on the backburner in a “I’ll get to it one day” mode because I have to work a hectic job to keep myself and my partner housed. It’s really depressing. Work/Life balance is nigh impossible.