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It also makes me wonder how many geniuses lived long ago. Was there someone born 80,000 years ago that would have been smart enough to design an FTL engine or k
by irrational 6y ago
It also makes me wonder how many geniuses lived long ago. Was there someone born 80,000 years ago that would have been smart enough to design an FTL engine or know how to bridge quantum mechanics and general relativity? Perhaps only one person in 100,000 years is that smart and they were born way before their time.
- jamiek88 6y agoWhat about people laboring in the fields or Cambodia or a sweatshop in Thailand even today. There must be many geniuses who have lived and died in drudgery. The explosion of science in the late 1800s was largely the work of a over moneyed and underworked class of second sons and landowning clergy. They had lots of free time, education and wealth to explore their ideas.