AMA | September 2024

10396.331 - 10414.417 Sean Carroll

Penzias and Wilson, who discovered the cosmic microwave background, are the best examples of that. They were not looking for the cosmic microwave background. They were looking for other things, but they found it. Perfectly okay. They found it. The prize is not given for having the most IQ points. It's given for finding things, for really discovering something true about nature.