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> For people of that caliber, living in pre-modern societies must have been the equivalent to torture. Why? Vitruvius, Thales, Eratosthenes, Archimedes,Euclid

• Bakary 6y ago
  That is an excellent point. In this case, I still can't help but think of all those whose circumstances did not allow them to produce anything that would be remembered by history. "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." — S. J. Gould