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Originally Posted by TheLonelyChemist
But I may become someone's inspiration, to teach. If, the next Feynman, writes a letter like the following to me, I think I would be proud.
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Originally Posted by TheLonelyChemist
I don't know, Chemist - do you think there will ever be another Richard Feynman? He was pretty much one of a kind. 
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Within the next one or two hundred years? Yes I believe the chance is great. There are many, astoundingly talented people who get overlooked or simply don't want popularity. I own a copy of his first volume of his Lectures on Physics, and while I do agree he was one of a kind, I don't believe nobody would match his skills and intellect in future.
Another interesting fact - Neil deGrasse Tyson said on StarTalk that scientists in the early 20th century said "We are liven in the golden era of science" Hundred years from then, we are like "We barely knew anything back then", and we like to think we are liven in the "golden era of science", and then in another hundred years people will be like ""We barely knew anything back in the 21st century" and so on.
So yes I think as long as we exist on this planet, there will be smarter and smarter scientists who rival their past counterparts.
