The power of one

"Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in art, in music, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man."

—John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Comments

[Jeff Richardson]

You and John Steinbeck have come up with a good point.

[Tom O'Connor]

Lennon & McCartney, Rodgers & Hammerstein, George & Ira Gershwin
Watson & Crick, Marie & Pierre Curie
Socrates, Plato & Aristotle
Jefferson, Adams, Monroe, Hamilton et al
Lorenz and Zeeman ...Lorenz and Einstein
The Montcalm Brothers
The Wright Brothers
The Marx Brothers
Stieglitz and O'Keefe

[Ernie]

Hey Tom. You forgot Bonnie & Clyde.

[Tom O'Connor]

Sonny & Cher also

[Lou Giansante]

Ummm. The Nicholas Brothers.

Oh and by the way, along with Crick and Watson, you might want to add Rosalind Franklin, since their entire 1953 publication was based on her data (without citation of course).

Lou Giansante

[Gloria Fox]

And let's not forget complexity. As our world gets more complex, it takes more minds to solve complex problems. "We are smarter than me".

[Charles]

Gilbert & Sullivan created a lasting body of work that would have been impossible by either alone; arguably, their solo works are only remembered today because of the genius of what they created together.