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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