Thanks for writing another content-rich thoughtful post Val. Didn't Einstein have a quote said about him, something like "on the backs of giants." Didn't his breakthroughs develop after the work of a couple generations of thinkers? Should we quit wrestling the one-arm bandit just because no one's hit the jackpot yet? Keep chiseling the rock face off the mine.
And why does everybody want an new Einstein anyway? I want a new Henry Ford to build me a cheaper line of rocket packs. Or a new better Al Gore so maybe we can really save the planet. Or a Louis Pasteur or Marie Curie to make everybody healthier. I wanna buy some baby Carl Jung dvd's from a sing-along collection so my kids can understand people better. (I hope Carl Jung was the Briggs-Meyer test one, if not I might have just said something I didn't mean to say. I know he's not the cigar smoking fetish one; that was Freud.)
