Proverbial myth 3: Great minds think alike

Before saying anything, let read this  conversation between two great minds of golden time.... This conversation is taken from "Lives of the Ancient Philosophers"..........

Alexander, passing through Corinth, had a curiosity to see Diogenes, who happened to be there at the time: he found him basking in the sun in the grove of Craneum, where he was mending his tub. 


"I am," said he to him, "the great king Alexander." 


"And I," replied the philosopher, "am the dog Diogenes."


"Are you not afraid of me?" continued Alexander. 


"Are you good or bad?" asked Diogenes.


"Good," rejoined Alexander. 


"And who need be afraid of one that is good?" answered Diogenes.


Alexander admired the penetration and freedom of Diogenes; and after some conversation, he said to him, "I see, Diogenes, that you are in want of many things, and I shall be happy to serve you; ask of me what you will." 


"Retire, then, a little to one side," replied Diogenes, "you are depriving me of the sun."


It is no wonder that Alexander stood astonished at seeing a man so completely above every human concern. 


"Which of the two is richest," continued Diogenes: "he who is content with his cloak and his bag, or he for whom a whole kingdom does not suffice, and who is daily exposing himself to a thousand dangers in order to extend it?"


The courtiers of the king were indignant that so great a monarch should thus honor such a dog as Diogenes, who did not even rise from his place. Alexander perceived it, and, turning about to them, said, "Were I not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes."

This legendary conversation is between two great minds looking for different goals.... so you might be thinking that if both were following same goals with similar means they would definitely thinking similar....

Well,  this is unlikely... In previous century two great minds of Physics, Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg disagreed over principle of uncertainty and Einstein spent from 1927 on till his death struggling to refute the theory but failed.... Though these two great minds were using similar means and looking for similar goal but they weren't thinking alike......

So..............