Genius and Madness
It's a thin line between genius and madness -- and Cracked.com has assembled a list that proves the point.
Among the 7 "Eccentric" Geniuses Who Were Clearly Just Insane:
- Pythagoras, mathematical genius who founded a religion that held that beans were evil and that vegetarianism and pacifism were essential (except when Pythagoras was himself slaughtering oxen or dying in fights).
- Nikola Tesla, brilliant scientist who was a compulsive hand-washer, afraid of round objects and fixated on the number three
- Lord Byron, great poet who let a small menagerie of exotic animals wander around his home doing whatever they liked and spent whole days in homemade forts directing toy boats. He was basically Prince with all of the sex and none of weird religious hangups.
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