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#323 - Science & Survival

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Negative Effects of Nobel Prizes

"I have a chapter in my book saying that Nobel Prizes made you more harm than good," he says. "Many of the great discoveries are made serendipitously, by people who are not of any special intellectual eminence" He would put Stephen Weinberg in that class with someone who obviously had the broad intellectual interests and the ability to do a great deal of work at greater variety and a greater speedthan most other people.

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