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One of my opinions that the best in any given field are usually actually underrated. Because so few can actually distinguish the quality of the great masters. And what they pioneer comes to feel so ordinary

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Maybe another reason is that people have to signal their erudition by not naming the literal most famous person when talking about the greats. No one will think you're very clever for saying Einstein/Newton is the best physicist or Gauss/Euler is the best mathematician

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