An genius and diet stylized image, from Eric Weiner’s 2016 article “Gastronomy of Genius: History of Great Minds and the Foods that Fueled Them”, showing: Albert Einstein, eating ice cream, Steve Jobs, eating carrots, Isaac Newton, eating an apple, Gandhi, drinking tea [?], Pythagoras, drinking hemlock [?] with his beans, Honore Balzac, eating a cherry with his 50 cups of daily coffee, and Marie Curie, drinking coffee [?] with her butter and bread. [2] |
“The Poles are advanced in knowledge; but their diets hold forth a dreadful scene of the conflict of private and public good.”— John Stewart (c.1790), comment on the Poles, according to according to Ralph Griffiths
“May not genius be shown in arranging a man’s diet, exercise, sleep, reading, reflection, writing, etc., in the best order and proportion, for his improvement in knowledge?”— John Adams (1758). “What are the proofs, the characteristics of genius?”, Diary entry