Alt text: a post from @lolennui.bsky.social that says: Once my German friend asked what creative people do without arts grants and other support in the US and I felt like a parent trying to explain to their kid that the puppies can die sometimes

  • Master@lemm.eeEnglish
    461·
    4 months ago

    We could have cured cancer years ago but the scientist grew up poor and ended up working the graveyard shifts in the mines.

    • Codex@lemmy.world
      81·
      4 months ago

      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

      • mindbleach
        9·
        4 months ago

        Ramanujan died at 32 from complications with childhood dysentery.