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delta_p_delta_x a day ago

> By the end of an undergraduate degree every physicist should end up feeling like they know nothing about physics.

You couldn't have been any closer. I emerged feeling extremely stupid after doing physics at uni. My rather mediocre marks didn't help...

godelski 20 hours ago | parent [-]

LOL to be honest I'm more scared of the people that it doesn't happen to. At first I feared them because I thought they knew so much more and it meant I was so far behind. But later I feared them because I recognized we were at not too dissimilar levels and the main difference was recognizing how far left we have to go.

I don't fear the man who knows more than me, I admire them and only have something to gain by admitting my ignorance to them. But I do fear the man who believes he knows more while in reality he doesn't. Nothing productive comes from them as they don't even recognize the journey we are both on.