Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better …

Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also. ✨ The Idiot. Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1868 - 1869.
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Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also. ✨ The Idiot. Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1868 - 1869.

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