Humility personified..

I was reading the biography of one of the greatest physicist and a nobel laureate, S.Chandrasekar. In a letter to his brother from England, he wrote, "Do you think, that just because one read a little calculus and conics when his equals did not read a little statistical mechanics which others of his age did not, happened to publish a few papers, Do you think that he is better than his friends, or Do you imagine he has in any case intrinsic merit? You are woefully mistaken if you think so... "

This was the man who published papers in the Proceedings of the Royal Society and in the Philosophical Magazine in the second year of the undergraduate studies, without any special guidance. He believes that advances in science are not made by publishing papers, or making a discovery but by earnest study and a lot of work. He stands as a personification of humility.

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