I'm not sure that physicists would agree with that.
No two minds work alike - the greater the genius, the more so.
What one person achieves can only be relative to the state of collective knowledge during the time of his or her life. Leonardo Da Vinci's achievements today would be considered those of a backyard amateur. The more knowledge we have, the greater the originality required to discover new principles and phenomena.
This post was edited by inky at August 17, 2019 5:39 PM MDT