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Life, the universe, and everything with Nobel laureate physicist Saul Perlmutter

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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Are You the Most Arrogant of All Physicists?

There's an interesting tension here in that I have often heard physicist stereotype is the most arrogant of all scientists. And I never could wrap my mind around that because any physicist, even early in training, knows how vast the unexplained universe is. So can you make sense of that paradox for me? What is it that causes some physicists to become arrogant and how do we maintain humility in that world? If enough humans are working together well enough with enough humbleness individually but arrogance collectively, we can solve the problems.

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