Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky. (№ 257971)

On the tomb of Lamarck his daughter made the inscription: "You will be avenged". How many say these words.
The famous Professor Newton was forced to flee to the officials. The same happened with our Mendeleev: he left the University in force. Cuvier was pursued by Lamarck and declared his fellow academicians idiot. The great manuscript of Newton lying unattended and was printed many years after its writing. Edison wandered in poverty, not finding apps hidden in neh forces. It was the same with the famous Burbank.
All of this continues to occur and now, especially in these uncivilized countries like the old Russia.
Great things did not jury scholars, and people in the conventional sense, small. Such, for example, artillery Engelhardt and the great Liebig, not finished high school and got to the Professor's only thanks to the patronage and connections of the Humboldt.