Apologies for being a day late. Sonnets sometimes need to cook a bit.
The fallen apple or rising bathwater,
the glowing filament or buzzing wire:
these symbols of the lonely scientist
belie the fact. Discoveries don't come
from vacuum. Standing upon the shoulders
of giants, yes, but more so hand in hand
with colleagues and with friends. Collaborate
to spark ideas, make discoveries.
Edison was front man for a team,
the Muckers: scientists, inventors all
who found the public eager to believe
the myth of solitary genius. Where
would Watson and Crick without Franklin?
Bell sans Watson? Higgs, Englert without CERN?
Thomas Edison and the Myth of the Lone Inventor
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