"Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and with what eventually one of her mentors described as an almost alarming speed; she was like a dancer, he said, out in the cosmos springing weightlessly from star to star. Drones, merely brilliant, crawled along behind with laborious proofs that supported her assertions."

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Source : Deborah Eisenberg (2016). “Twilight of the Superheroes”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

Deborah Eisenberg

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