Stupid Proverb

[poliphilo]

"Great Minds think alike".

Only they don't, do they? The whole point of great minds is that they think differently.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Though, as I understand it, Wallace and Darwin were working from quite different sets of data- Darwin in the South Seas and Wallace in South East Asia.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

That's a good point. Maybe steepholm's statement is more accurate -- they're trying to answer the same questions, and trying to gather SIMILAR data to do so. Even if the exact data sets are discrete, they were gathered for similar purposes.