“Basically, she felt that a normal, hard working kid has no hope of ever making a real contribution in science when there are so many true geniuses out there. I would love to point her to a thread that dispels this idea.”
When I was first starting out in my career, I wondered when I was going to have my Anne Sullivan/Helen Keller moment. I think we’re conditioned that only newsworthy contributions are meaningful. I found this quote that changed my perspective.
“We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot forsee.” Marian Wright Edelman