Julia Robinson Quote

I have been told that some people think that I was blind not to see the solution myself when I was so close to it. On the other hand, no one else saw it either. There are lots of things, just lying on the beach as it were, that we don't see until someone else picks one of them up. Then we all see that one.

In: D. Albers, G. Alexanderson and C. Reid, More Mathematical People: Contemporary Conversations (p. 278)

I have been told that some people think that I was blind not to see the solution myself when I was so close to it. On the other hand, no one else saw ...

I have been told that some people think that I was blind not to see the solution myself when I was so close to it. On the other hand, no one else saw ...

I have been told that some people think that I was blind not to see the solution myself when I was so close to it. On the other hand, no one else saw ...

I have been told that some people think that I was blind not to see the solution myself when I was so close to it. On the other hand, no one else saw ...