Peter Gleick on Nostr: The problem isn't we need more people to produce more Einsteins or Mozart's. The ...
The problem isn't we need more people to produce more Einsteins or Mozart's.
The problem is we don't nurture and protect the ones we have.
As Stephen Jay Gould wrote in The Panda's Thumb: "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"
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