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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
Hmmm .... so a lot of the scientists that I think of as heroes, like say Newton, Einstein, Hubble, Tyson, Hawking ... because they never got into trouble as children, and generally lived within societies rules, then all of their thinking is unoriginal?? None of them ever discovered something??
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Newton was a total dick. No, really. Additionally, he dabbled in alchemy and lord knows what else, as was the fashion at the time. He was extremely unconventional. Einstein was not a dick (I think, I haven't read a biography but wasn't there something about his marriage or wife?), but at least as unconventional. Hawking, I don't know. Did he have much choice in the matter? You could also say that almost everything about him is unconventional. I know lots of Tysons (?Dyson? given the list?), I do not know which one you are referring to.
They greatly advanced human knowledge, but they were not "regular joes on the street". It takes a certain mindset to venture off into the unknown, and neatly obeying all the rules does not fit.
All personal opinion of course.