[lapcat]

> Einstein didn't make as many groundbreaking discoveries in his latter years; some attributed this to being tied down with more draining work.

There's only so much that one person can do in a lifetime. Humans are not infinite wells of creativity.

Or let's put it this way: which post-Einstein groundbreaking discoveries do you think he should have made? Why does he personally have to discover everything in physics?

Why didn't the Beatles write Stairway to Heaven?

Doing one great thing is hard. Doing several great things is even harder. There's no reproducible method, no routine. You can't just crank out inspiration on an assembly line.

[muzani]

Actually, I might have been mistaken on this. Einstein got in most of his contributions by 56 and didn't plateau much earlier as initially calculated.

[tayo42]

I am thought Einsteins lack of significant discoveries after relativity was due to kind of bad luck. He happened to get stuck on thinking qm wasn't right? I feel like that happens alot, you could be brilliant just had lived with the wrong circumstances. Maybe he woukd have done more if he was accepting of qm?