GeNeYouS: Newsletter: Column
Intelligenes
Index - Welcome - Board report - Chairman's wise words - Horizon programme
Agenda - To know and to be known - Netherlands Genomics Initiative - BioPartner - GeNeYouS, the next generation
To know and to be known
I wonder: what turns an ordinary nine-till-five researcher into a genius? When do people start recognizing the true capabilities of a genius? Most important, will that before or after his death?
History learns that a genius is generally better off dead than alive: Mozart died too young to be heard, Einstein never saw his theory rising – nor falling, Curie developed her theory while dying, Van Gogh only sold paintings after his death and the only person being famous all over the world today is a boy named Bush; he’s not the prototype genius, is he?
So far there is no reason to be pessimistic: I am not known yet and I am not dead yet. So who knows, you could be reading a genius’ story right now. Thinking of it makes me laugh: I am a genius and you all do not know it.
The thought of me sitting on a cloud, laughing at all those intelligent people not being able to unravel my theory, helps me through the day. The next question would be: are there more like me?
I am absolutely sure the next genius-to-be-known-after-his-death will be a genomicist, since astronomy has not proved its liability. After all, the reasons for choosing this field of research are obvious: it is straightforward work and it does not require much thinking.
So at least there must be more people like me. Could we connect? I want to be famous one way or the other. That is why I decided to make myself known to as many people as possible, without much effort. So far it worked.
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