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When Galileo dropped two weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, they put him in the history books. But when I do it, I get ‘detained by security’ for ‘injuring several tourists.’
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3154/
When Faraday demonstrates his electric motor to his peers, everyone calls him a genius. When I do it, I get arrested for driving through the convention floor.
I once heard it took Robert Frost almost two years to write “the road not taken” well, with a little practice, I was able to write it ib a little less than two minutes!
The most disappointing part of school is taking a 101 class and making a bunch of deductions based on what you learn, and then taking the 201 and learning that other people had the same ideas first.
I dunno, I kind of enjoyed that. What is more disappointing is when those people thought of similar ideas but then made a very inconvenient way to describe them the “convention”, e.g the direction of electrical current or pi.
Poincaré? (I know, his insight somehow still came short of Einstein’s, but it’s interesting how close he came.)



