I agree with everything you said. To be clear, I am not bragging that I could beat Newton in a math contest. I believe unequivocally that Isaac Newton is orders of magnitude better than me at math. To paraphrase Dr. Dre, he would step on me and not even know it.

Using my metric of comparing people where they fall in the distribution of greatness during their "playing days," Isaac Newton was several sigmas to the right. I am not.