I think it is normal to have someone to look up to. It is called standing on the shoulder of giant. People are inspired by Armstrong to become astronaut all the time and have their own hero to look up to. It is perfectly normal.
電影中愛因斯坦對奧本海默講: 你在U. C. Berkeley 教量子力學時,把我說得一無是處,怎麼還來請教我這個[決定論/determinism]者?因為奧本海默正在向愛因斯坦請教原子彈爆炸後會引起大氣連鎖爆炸並造成世界毀滅的機率?當時奧本海默顯得有點尷尬。懂得在歐洲量子力學蓬勃發展經過的人都知道,愛因斯坦對量子力學中之Schrodinger equation wave function psi是代表機率(probability)而不是任何可量測的物理量而感到不安與不服。他不停的挑戰波恩,海森堡與波爾等人量子力學機率論的主流主張,很可惜直到今日(爭論至今將近百年)愛因斯坦的質疑還是挑戰失敗。不可諱言的是, 正由於愛因斯坦的不斷挑戰與質疑間接促成了今日量子疊加(superposition)與量子干擾(entanglement)的理論與應用的蓬勃發展。