About all the would-be geniuses who might otherwise make the next big scientific breakthrough but lived in poverty and never had the opportunity to develop their full potential?
I feel like it was by Sagan or Bertrand Russell or someone but my google-fu is no good and I can't find shit
Halp
Before he wrote mismeasure of man he publicly opined that he wouldn’t bother reading the bell curve, which the book was written to refute. What a weird way to try to conduct an argument.
That's not the one I was thinking of but very similar. The one I'm thinking of didn't reference Einstein
Edit: and worth saving thanks!
lived in poverty and never had the opportunity to develop their full potential
(heartwarming neoliberal muzak starts playing as the film is edited to show a heroic narrative of rugged individualism)