> and I know quite a few eccentric and unsocial smart people. Selection bias. People who have been able to distinguish themselves as “smart” are already a narr

> and I know quite a few eccentric and unsocial smart people. Selection bias. People who have been able to distinguish themselves as “smart” are already a narrow sample, as the results of many UBI initiatives suggest. > 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. — Stephen Jay Gould