Two things come to mind: > I was considered by all my masters and my father a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard of intellect. -Charles Darwi

Two things come to mind: > I was considered by all my masters and my father a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard of intellect. -Charles Darwin > That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it. > “You appear to be astonished,” he said, smiling at my expression of surprise. “Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it.” > “To forget it!” > “You see,” he explained, “I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose…” > “But the Solar System!” I protested. > “What the deuce is it to me?” he interrupted impatiently; “you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.” -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet