Many famous scientists have something in common: they didn’t work long hours
Actually what I can read in the article is that they have in common to work long hours.<p>The very first example about Darwin already mentions that he gets 3x 1.5h stretches of dedicated work in, <i>every f'n day</i>. That's way more what the common 80h/week employee gets in with all the meetings, cross-office talk, and water-cooler waits. Even if you don't consider that "every day" probably also includes weekends.<p>Famous scientists apparently didn't just work a lot, they worked very efficiently to achieve something like that.