The history of physics ideas does not follow a lockstep pattern with the history of individual physicists; different people develop different ideas at different times from different sources, making scientific discovery inherently messier than simplified historical narratives suggest.
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“Different people have different ideas. They have different ideas at different times. They get them from different sources. That's the messy human reality of doing science.”
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