The output of historic geniuses is just insane. The sheer amount of work and discovery and creation they did seems too much for one lifetime. I just don’t understand how they managed all they did.
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While I do not in any way discount the genius of these people, because they reached groundbreaking conclusions with a lot less fundamental knowledge that we take for granted today, but it is worth noting that the overwhelming majority of them belonged to higher social classes. They had wealth, status, sizeable income, often passive. That left them a lot more time to actually work on their studies than the average commoner had.
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