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Well then, the founding fathers of the United States were all mentally ill. All of the greatest scientific minds that made breakthroughs in their field are men

Well then, the founding fathers of the United States were all mentally ill. All of the greatest scientific minds that made breakthroughs in their field are mentally ill.

lioeters 6d ago
Sane people adapt themselves to the world. The insane ones persist in trying to adapt the world to themselves. Therefore all progress depends on the mentally abnormal. (Parody of a famous quote about "unreasonable man".)
- jasomill 6d ago
  "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." — George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26107/pg26107-images.html#id00151 https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26107/pg26107-images.ht...
  - chii 6d ago
    and people misuse this quote to justify unreasonable behaviour that does not progress the world.
chii 6d ago
> the greatest scientific minds if one has a scientific mind, they will accept evidence which may be contrary to their personal views. If you dont, you cannot be said to have a scientific mind, let alone greatest. > founding fathers of the United States that may in fact, be the case, but chances are someone today of similar disposition would not be able to do the same.
- ceejayoz 6d ago
  > if one has a scientific mind, they will accept evidence which may be contrary to their personal views. If you dont, you cannot be said to have a scientific mind, let alone greatest. Then no one has a scientific mind. It's a spectrum, not a binary. Newton was into alchemy. Watson got into race pseudoscience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease has a nice long list.