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Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody.

John Brockman

Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody.

Tags: geniuses, history, minority, scientists, serious, thinking

Traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments of our tim...

John Brockman

Traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments of our tim...

Tags: accomplishments, american, ignorance, intellectuals, reactionary, significance

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John Brockman may refer to:

John Brockman (soldier) (1734–1801), colonel from North Carolina in the American Revolutionary War
John Brockman (literary agent) (born 1941), American author and literary agent

CAPTURE CHARLES SEIFE Professor of journalism, NYU; former staff writer, Science; author, Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception

John Brockman

CAPTURE CHARLES SEIFE Professor of journalism, NYU; former staff writer, Science; author, Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception

The discovery of mirror neurons was made by Giacomo Rizzolatti, Vittorio Gallase, and Marco Iaccoboni while recording from the brains of monkeys that performed certain goal-directed voluntary actions....

John Brockman

The discovery of mirror neurons was made by Giacomo Rizzolatti, Vittorio Gallase, and Marco Iaccoboni while recording from the brains of monkeys that performed certain goal-directed voluntary actions....