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am_Unition  ·  2605 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: We Need More ‘Useless’ Knowledge

I've seen it go both ways. Had a good friend tell me that experimentalists can be theorists if they really wanna, but that theorists never make good experimentalists. I just said "yeah, yeah, totally," and then went back to whatever I was doing. More often than not, it's generational.

I think creativity might be the #1 most undervalued trait in physics, but it's notoriously difficult to quantify. It's a catch-22.