Edison's ghosts : the untold weirdness of history's greatest geniuses
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-332) and index.

As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a genius; but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.y So begins Katie Spalding's spunky takedown of the Western canon, and how genius may not be as irrefutably great as we commonly understand. While most of us may never become Einstein, it may surprise you to learn that there's probably a bunch of stuff you can do that Einstein couldn't. And, as Spalding shows, the famous prodigies she explores here were quite odd by any definition.