March 2011
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LEAVING ON A JET PLANE - JOHN DENVER
“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via bloodisthenewblackk)
6 beloved scientists who were actually total jerks →
scipsy:
Edison “electrocuted an adorable elephant named ‘Topsy’”
Watson is a racist, a sexist, and sometimes even a supporter of eugenetics.
Lavoisier “was a ruthless merchant who didn’t mind making a buck off of poor people.”
Aristotele “may have been more racist than Hitler.”
Geiger was a Nazi.
Franklin “was an insufferable, petty whore of a man whom his peers loathed.”
