Einstein was not a very good mathematician. This quote from David Hilbert sums it up well:
“Every boy in the streets of Göttingen understands more about four-dimensional geometry than Einstein. Yet, in spite of that, Einstein did the work and not the mathematicians.”
A lot of the best startups (Airbnb, Uber) started with what was actually a dumb idea. But that dumb idea was in the neighbourhood of a very good idea, and the founders were flexible enough and persistent enough to navigate the startup from the former to the latter.
Nash said "the same way", not the "the same voice":
“the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.” - Sylvia Nasar, "A Beautiful Mind"
Thanks. Fair enough, but he did say "they came". And if you think about it he does not specify "the way". I remember that he heard voices. Because he said that to get cured he just stop listening to the voice or voices.
That goes for a lot of videos, TBH. Lots of introductions, jokes, uhms, ahs and other junk, and you can't even search them to look for, say, a thing you're interested in.
90% of the page at the bottom is the transcript. Right below the audio file is the time annotated transcript as well. Might have been added after you opened it: should recheck.
This was the exact reason I stopped listening to NDT's Star Talk. Wayyy too many mediocre jokes, intros, outros, how's it goings, what's ups, wayyy too little science.
It is supposed to be like that. It is entertainment made for a broader audience. And it is also fairly "cheap" to make. If you want more science you can buy his books or watch cosmos (a new one is coming this year). Or you can "graduate" and go read more specific material. Someday someone might figure out how to make more specific content for a lot of people, but it mostly hasn't happened yet.
