[ExI] high quality minds

[William Flynn Wallace]

OK, got your attention, since all of us, (ahem), in this group have them.
My question:

Do you subscribe to the genius view of scientific progress, or the
inevitable finding view?

Was it inevitable that someone would 'discover' zero and negative numbers
if Brahmagupta hadn't done it?  (that's my answer).  Ditto evolution,
Newton's laws, relativity, etc.

Or am I just out of date (likely) and this is no longer a controversy?

As someone said (I think it was me): without geniuses, 100 years of history
has only 90 years of happenings (progress, inventions, etc).

bill w
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