he's practiced a specific process to death, i'm sure he's amazing at math but not brilliant. you're effectively done in math/physics at 30, if you haven't done something groundbreaking by then you likely won't.
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"She has no waist, no arse...an interesting face...but all we are really worshipping is two bags of silicone"

Martin Amis "honoring" katie price with a character bearing some of her traits