/sci/ - Science & Math

>A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative.
Yet I was asking something which is about the scientif i c equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare’s?

Is this really a fair characterization? Isn't it more like asking a specific work of Shakespeare rather than any of his works in general? Do all STEMcels really hold a familiarity with the 2nd law of thermodynamics akin to students of humanities (Chads) knowledge of Shakespeare?