/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3880964

>stop taking photo's
>taking photo's
>photo's

Then who was photo?

A perfect storm of factors is brewing, gentleman. The universities are currently enjoying their gilded age, but the situation plots against them. My idea will only be the deathblow.

Why is it that scientists, mathematicians, and engineers hold artists, philosophers, composers, and other non-scientific geniuses in contempt? It's quite obvious that, though they may not work in a particular field, theirs is nonetheless a very rigorous occupation. I would argue the artistic or philosophic genius is several orders more brilliant, more creative, and more intellectually endowed than the dime-a-dozen inventors, engineers, physicists, ant the like.

I do not overlook the fact that amazing men like Tesla and Daimler essentially built the world we all live in. But I cannot understand or for one minute excuse in my mind the haughty air wherewith everyone who is involved in the sciences looks down upon everyone who is not. In fact, in the very sphere these scientific men claim in defense of their arrogance, eminent minds both in philosophy and in art have often foreseen and presaged in their own ways the 'discoveries' of science which occur hundreds of years after their time. Yet these men are not acknowledged, nor are their kind given any due respect. Why? Are you, scientists, so in need of an intellectual hierarchy to preside over that any and all who offer a different intellectual spark are a most critical threat to be denigrated and ridiculed?