Now, these men weren’t idiots. They were geniuses who paid a high price for their genius because the rest of their thinking was other-world. A genius is someone who travels to truth by an unexpected path. Unfortunately, unexpected paths lead to disaster in everyday life.
Alfred Bester, “The Men Who Murdered Mohammed,” The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1958; reprinted in The Dark Side of the Earth (1964) and David Hartwell, ed., The World Treasury of Science Fiction, p. 268.
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