> What if Isaac Newton gave up on the light bulb? What a nightmare! We could have had to wait centuries for somebody in the colonies to invent the thing, losin

> What if Isaac Newton gave up on the light bulb? What a nightmare! We could have had to wait centuries for somebody in the colonies to invent the thing, losing so much intellectual momentum that people would end up reading instructions on how to think like a billionaire written by somebody who is, quite obviously, not a billionaire.