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Of course but they are not broad ideas like creating a new type of math while explaining how planets circle the sun kind of ideas.

Like I said earlier I don't know how you can place the value or rate ideas but please point out some individuals making cross disciplinary breakthroughs at the level of Newton today. I'm actually sincere because I would like to know more about these individuals.

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The big issue I have with the "solitary genius" theory is that ideas do not occur in a vacuum Isaac Newton who several people in this thread have mentioned went to great lengths himself to dispel this myth. One of his most famous quotes is:

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

Scientific progress is incremental it builds on the work and ideas that have come before.