(June 2, 2013 at 12:36 pm)little_monkey Wrote: An intelligent person can also be dumb in other areas of said expertise: point in case is Newton. He put physics on the map, but for a good part of his life, he practiced alchemy... besides, being an asshole to Robert Hooke.
But does that warrant labeling them a dumb person? If a dumb person is someone that can't apply the entirety of their intellect to every aspect of their life, we're all guilty.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
