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Yes, but Newmann put himself to the task. More than anything else, the curiosity (in a given subject) has to be self-sustained. A hard task for a capricious intellect at a young age, eh?Pyrrhus said:My exact thoughts. I wrote a lengthy answer but had PF gave me some gateway error, and thus it was lost =(. In essence, it compared those both cases, and also asked about parental guidance as an important factor. Sometimes parents praise you too much or push you too much , and that can have emotional consequences to the child. The pressure of all these expectations of becoming the next Einstein, next Dirac might become to unbearable like in the case of Sidis.