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> you have asked me a question so dumb

You must have missed the part where he says that it's an excellent question.

> he was smart and other people were dumb

But he was smart. A lot smarter than you and me and the vast majority of people. He was also pretty humble about it, once famously saying that if he couldn't explain something to a freshman it's because he himself didn't understand it.



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