Author of quotes: Geniuses and outsiders

No one achieves success alone - not rock stars, not professional athletes, not computer billionaires, not even geniuses.

Is it any wonder that Oppenheimer handled all difficult situations so skillfully? If your father worked his way to the top of the business, you have the opportunity to observe firsthand how they overcome crisis situations. If you studied at the School of Ethical Culture, you are unlikely to be intimidated by Cambridge professors sitting in court proceedings. If you studied physics at Harvard, you know how to structure a conversation with a general who studied engineering at MIT.

In contrast, children from poor families are characterized by “pronounced restraint, mistrust and tightness.” They do not know how to achieve what they want and do not know how - in Laro’s apt expression - to “adjust” this or that situation to their goals.

In contrast, poor parents tend to rely on “natural development.” They believe that they are obliged to take care of the child, but he must develop independently.

But she signed up for it herself and got to classes herself.

You can have analytical intelligence without having practical intelligence, and vice versa. Or, if you're lucky, like Robert Oppenheimer, you can boast of both.

At the beginning of a scientific career, nothing is more beneficial for a person than working with a renowned mentor.