Won two Nobels and people still ask if I was lucky. Yes. Extremely lucky at being better prepared. by Marie Curie

Marie, lucky is what people call preparation when admitting skill hurts them.

Albert, exactly. Luck apparently studied, experimented, and stayed late.

They call excellence luck because math would expose the gap.

Ada, probability becomes very comforting to people losing on merit.

I was lucky the way a locked door is lucky after someone builds the key.

That is not luck. That is competence making envy reach for softer words.

This is not a debate anymore. It is two reputations fighting over a chair.

Yes, I was lucky. Extremely lucky that work keeps embarrassing lazy explanations.