The Greats and Their Hunger for Curiosity
Albert Einstein was known for his theory on relativity. Issac Newton for gravity. And Galileo for astronomy. It is often thought that what makes a person great and wise is the abundance of knowledge they hold. Sure, all of these discoveries were revolutionary, but what I think is just as unique but is overlooked at is how all of these people probed into the unknown. To see that there is a world full of discoveries to be made and a world to understand. It wasn’t their discoveries that made them great, but their hunger for curiosity to discover beyond the unknown. In order “to converse with the greats,” we must learn to “[try] their blindfolds on,” as said in the poem “To converse with the greats” by Vera Palova.
As quoted from Albert Einstein himself, “I am neither clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.”
