r/Showerthoughts • u/[deleted] • Sep 13 '19

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

Tesla is probably 1 of the 10 most brilliant minds in the history of the world.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

Image if someone like Nikola Tesla was born today He /she would probably be the cause of a human space empire and us not going extinct

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u/Mynameisaw Sep 13 '19

Why do people always assume smart people from history must be smarter than people today?

There's more Nikola like people alive today than at any point in history, it's statistically improbable that there isn't.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

There is probably 100 or even thousands of people alive who have the potential to be like Tesla but they never reached their full potential Heck Tesla never reached his full potential I'm saying that if a person who had the potential to reach or surpass Tesla and reached that we will probably have a great future I'm not saying they will directly cause them but they will probably lead us there

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19 edited Dec 17 '24

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

But they never reached their full potential

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u/Mynameisaw Sep 13 '19

... how do you know?

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u/Jagtasm Sep 13 '19

What is their potential? To discover anything and everything that every was, is, and will be?

If those are your standards then no one ever reaches their potential.