Do You Have to Be a Genius to Do Great Science?

Apparently the jury is still out on this issue but the links below provide some encouragement:

• Terence Tao:  Does one have to be a genius to do maths?
• The Cult of Genius at the Cosmic Variance blog

Update: I have just found an interesting follow-up on the Cult of Genius post, The Cult of Theory, at Chad Orzel’s blog.

Update 2: an interesting recent discussion at the Backreaction blog.

Update 3: see this post by Peter Turney and this article

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