> The reality is that only a tiny percentage of people move a field/humankind forward. We just happen to remember the ones that got more press, or perhaps publ

> The reality is that only a tiny percentage of people move a field/humankind forward. We just happen to remember the ones that got more press, or perhaps published first. As one example, multiple folks came up with calculus at just about the same time: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_discoveries#17th_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_discoveries#1... Everyone knows Newton, some folks know about Leibniz, but how many now about de Fermat, etc? Bell is know for the telephone, but what about Elisha Gray? * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Gray_and_Alexander_Bell_telephone_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Gray_and_Alexander_Bell... Also Edison and the light bulb versus Swan (and others): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb