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ELON: I STRONGLY RECOMMEND STUDYING PHYSICS “I studied physics and I certainly strongly recommend physics as a good grounding to understand the nature of reality. Physics is fundamentally just understanding how the universe actually works. And then that's a good foundation for then a variety of engineering disciplines. I... think also the analytical principles, the sort of analytical constructs used in physics apply to basically anything. Physics developed all these ways of thinking, like first-principles thinking, thinking about things in the limit, high and low, testing your hypothesis. It's the scientific principle, essentially. These things are incredibly helpful in all arenas.” Source: Axel Springer Pioneer's Talk, December 2020show more

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