Benjamin Franklin
2 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 5, 2021 by Walter Isaacson · said 43 times in 5 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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Oct 5, 2021
Isaacson: Obsessive passion for details is a foundational key to creativity
“These type of people who realize that God is in the details, those are the people who make great advances, and I put Leonardo in that category. I put Ben Franklin, Steve Jobs in that category, Jennifer Doudna, as she's trying to understand the inner workings o…”
Oct 5, 2021 positive
Isaacson: Da Vinci and Franklin Succeeded Through Curiosity, Not Peerless Intellectual Power
“Leonardo da Vinci, and Ben Franklin for that matter, were not necessarily the highest powered Intellectual firepower people of their time. Leonardo. Probably not as great of a, you know, intellectual as Luca Pacioli, his friend who was a mathematician. But wha…”