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> Also, I think that looking at history, claim that all progress was due to unreasonable men is false.

This is because the definition of 'unreasonable' is relative. For Edison, wasting thousands of hours of lightbulb experiment was quite reasonable.

For most people before him, it was squarely in the unreasonable territory, and hence it took Edison for lightbulb to happen.

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Except that Edison didn’t invent the electric light bulb (first invented in 1806).

https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/or-not-thomas-edison-ligh...