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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein

Big Al is always good for a quote.

Watched a documentary on TV the other day about the end of his life. After the success of his theory of relativity (maybe you've heard of it?) he struggled with the concept of quantum mechanics. He was determined to arrive at a unified theory of everything. Hey, why not? It never pannned out for him and he died a somewhat irrelevant character on the science stage - which doesn't change the fact that his thinking changed ours.

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