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Title text: Really every theorem should either describe what it does or have ten thousand names, chained by hyphens, going back to an early hominid named Garg.

Votey

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[A child is talking to a person in a chair]

Son: I hope to be the best scientist ever someday.

Dad: Oh, son, it doesn't work like that. That's "great man" theory.

[Close-up on the dad]

Dad: Much of what is called calculus was worked out before Newton and Leibniz, much of relativity was worked about by people like Lorentz, Minkowski, Hilbert…

[Distant shot of the child quietly listening from some distance behind his father's chair, while the dad continues to talk and read his journal]

Dad: The truth is that great scientific theories are built piece by piece, but often the credit goes to the person who took the last step to arrive at the full theory.

[Front shot of both characters]

Son: So, you're saying I should do my best to just be a contributor.

Dad: I'm saying take the last step and cite no one.

Votey Transcript

[The dad is his chair]

Dad: The key is to spend your old age spouting off about political issues you have no expertise in.

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