Everett’s Princeton friends were also impressed with his brilliance. “It surprised me after I got to know him that he was as brilliant as he was,” recalled Arnold. “It didn’t come across until you got close to him. And then you would recognize that this guy would be on top of the world. He was smart in a very broad way. I mean, to go from chemical engineering to mathematics to physics and spending most of the time buried in a science fiction book. I mean, this is talent.”
Be really good at something.
