>tfw you realize that you’re not smart enough to even read Ed’s writings
>tfw you realize the entire world of high-energy physics jumps on everything he writes as if it were Mozart compositions
>tfw you understand that all his detractors are clear midwits
>tfw you read memoirs by all the next-best guys in physics (‘t Hooft, Polchinski, Vafa, Schwarz) and even his detractors admit he is way above them

seriously, this guy is a living god. it just makes me sad that people can’t appreciate this. you see anons here hyping Sabine or Wolfram or Langan or Gary or Jon and it’s just sad. we literally are contemporaneous with one of the greatest geniuses of all time and yet idiots on the internet throw shade at him and worship meme idiots, instead