Life in Newburgh on Ythan

By Talpa

Einstein's brain.

“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, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History.

A thought that has crossed my mind many times. So much wasted opportunity and talent. In fact Graham and I are confident that we would have come up with a proof for Fermat's Last Theorem years and years ago if we hadn't had all these damned roses to prune! (See extra).

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