You could give a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world. You also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after , , , , , and their colleagues. I'm not saying you're more intelligent than , or wiser. For all I know, 's the cleverest person who ever lived. That's not the point. The point is only that science is cumulative, and we live later.