GENIUS!

"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals
because what they must do is the same
as what they most want to do."

W. H. Auden

Galileo

Descartes

I believe geniuses help shape the world, but not all them are lucky.

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Genius is often linked with misery. Galileo lived in exile, wandered from city to city, and ended up in prison. Descartes also lived in exile, had to serve as a soldier, and died in a foreign land.

Vesalius

Copernicus

Kepler

The French anatomist Andreas Vesalius lived a vagabond's life, was accused of heresy, body-snatching, and dissection, and was on the threshold of execution; he was forced to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and he died in a shipwreck. Copernicus did not dare to publish his discoveries. Kepler never received the pension promised by the emperor.