• Stovetop@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Reminds me of this famous quote from Stephen Jay Gould:

    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.

    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 days ago

      And Einstein himself might have been one of those, seeing as he was a Jew that emigrated from Germany right around the time as the nazis took power