The line between genius and insanity is a fine one indeed, as exemplified by former UC-Berkeley Professor Theodore J. Kaczynski, aka the "Unabomber", who wrote the words above. Kaczynski has an IQ of 167. He also mailed or delivered more than a dozen homemade bombs to various individuals between 1978 and 1995, killing three and injuring 23. He is currently serving eight consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.
Science writer Sam Kean briefly profiled Kaczynski in his latest book, The Icepick Surgeon, partly because Kean was curious: Why would this clear genius commit such a dastardly crime?
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