Eureka!: Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed the World

It seems that the fellow who invented the wheel is forgotten. The first man to use symbol to represent thought in drawing is forgotten as well. It has gone badly for many such men, who seem sent to the world to suffer because they can think or see things just a little different. Stories like these need to be told. They don't happen as often as we might like then to. We also should be ashamed of how some of these men have been treated or rewarded for their gifts to history. Don't think that Christ, Socrates and Gandhi are sometimes as important as printing presses and Linotype machines in the spread of culture and it's advance. People are far from perfect and great men are still mostly just men like all other men. The trouble and pain we put these fellows through in our doubts and resistance is hard on them. Gandhi and Einstein were alive at the same time as Hitler and Mandelbrot. Good and bad coexist and we need more than a simple Paradigm Shift to make people listen to better ways when they come. The author recognized that Mandelbrot was as important as Einstein...

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This book is a must read for anyone interested in scientific breakthroughs. The drama of sudden insight as experienced by twelve distinct scientists brings the reader closer to these discoveries than ever before. The book also covers a wide range of luminaries, from Einstein to Mandlebrot to Medeleev. The moment of "eureka!" is brought to life