I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einst…

Stephen Jay Gould
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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 (2010). The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History, p.151, W. W. Norton & Company
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