You Are a Leader!

There is an amusing account of Professor Philipp von Jolly advising his student Max Planck not to go into physics at the University of Munich in 1878, “In this field, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few unimportant holes”.

 

Of course, Planck ignored his mentor's well-intentioned advice and went on to discover quantum mechanics which has greatly transformed modern life. Computers, smartphones, the Internet, GPS, and MRI are just a few examples of practical applications which were made possible through the theory of quantum mechanics.