What made Einstein a great scientist?

CGTN Europe

Some of the biggest scientists of our time - like Albert Einstein - were defined by their successes as much as their failures. Carlo Rovelli explains why.   #Razor #Razor_Science #Razor_Science_Show #RazorScienceShow  #Science #ScienceTok #Physics #PhysicsTok #Time #Space #Einstein #AlbertEinstein #Relativity #Gravity #QuantumMechanics  #QuantumScience #QuantumScienceTok  #CarloRovelli #Rovelli #RazorConversations

Transcript

00:00 I think a good scientist is a person who changes his mind often.

00:07 If we look back at Einstein, you see, why was he spectacular?

00:12 And then you realize one thing, he's one of the scientists who did the largest number

00:15 of mistakes than everybody else.

00:17 He has written a number of wrong papers and said a number of wrong things, more than anybody

00:24 else.

00:25 So you say, why?

00:26 I mean, he was smarter.

00:27 He was clearly more intuitive.

00:29 Why did he make all mistakes?

00:31 Because he was trying.

00:32 Trying this, trying this, trying this.

00:33 And every time it was not working well, he would just abandon it, go somewhere else.

00:38 The people who are really convinced of something and stubborn continue are not smart ones,

00:44 they're stupid ones.

00:46 I think the intelligent people are those who believe something and then they change their

00:49 mind.

00:49 [BLANK_AUDIO]

Category

Transcript

Recommended