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. [...] We know nothing about them because of the survivorlship bias.”. (Stephen Jay Gould)

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. [...] We know nothing about them because of the survivorlship bias.”.

Stephen Jay Gould

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