Richard Collins: Are loners better innovators?

'Neophobia’ — fear of the new — affects some more than others

Researchers tested animals' readiness to approach something new: a dorcas gazelle retrieving food after removing the cover from a cup

Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are two sides of the same coin — Gandhi

Nietzsche thought that only ‘supermen’ — very talented individuals— mattered. The rest of the common herd, he declared, had ‘the green-meadow gregariousness of bovine mediocrity’.