Whyalla South Australia a. We have not been able to trace the exact quote but we understand that Einstein used it as a wry answer when asked by a journalist to explain why he was smarter than other people. Sometimes the malformed brains were discovered only after death. The quick, but invalid, conclusion from this is that we don't need most of our brains, and so we don't use them. Of course, this is a vast oversimplification.
Similar cases abound where brain damage or loss led to loss of intelligence.
This only proves that in some cases the brain has incredible abilities to recover from damage, and not that it wasn't being used in the first place. Many readers wrote in with similar answers that referred to a half-remembered television documentary from the 1980s. It described the work of the late British neurologist John Lorber who had studied some very unusual young patients. All were of normal, or greater than normal, intelligence and had been sent to him because of minor neurological problems. Otherwise they did not stand out in any way, either socially or educationally.