"there are at least a handful if not a dozen or couple of dozen people who were and are equally as intelligent, brilliant, and more prolific." This might be ha

"there are at least a handful if not a dozen or couple of dozen people who were and are equally as intelligent, brilliant, and more prolific." This might be hard to prove. They'd have to have something comparable to Einstein's 1905 output, while working at some (dreary?) job to pay the bills. Maybe the Nobel (non-Peace) price isn't the best metric, but there are very few people with more than one and the 1905 work might have generated two that year... It might be hagiography, but it seemed he had a clarity of thought that enabled asking the right question and no concern about what the answer might be. Most of us are prisoners of our world view, few are blessed with the ability to change it.