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Well, that's where the true geniuses end up.
psychobrew
That would be true if science is more difficult or challenging that the rest knowledge fields (mainly humanities); but since this isnt the case (and if you think it is then you had better try to prove how it is) then your statement is invalid.More renowned and famous scientists doesnt mean that most geniuses end up there; it just means that humanities are being frowned upon and fame in this field is distributed in a very scarce manner.
I'm not saying there aren't really smart people in other fields, but physics takes a different kind of person. How would a normal person be able to make the link that time and space are woven together? ConcideringthatEinstein figured this out before any form of space travel or any real way to observe the effects on space and time is truley remarkable and mind blowing. It takes a different kind of mind to perform in some of the sciences, where common sense and memorization can get you far in most other fields. The most famous scientists are physicists for a reason.You pretty much have to have a super brain in order to make it in a field like this.
So now scientists are not normal people, but (I guess you mean) intellectually superior people? Wow... just wow.The two (science and humanities) are indeed different and require different "minds" but that in no way does it put either one higher than the other.
Also you must know nothing about the learning process in humanities to make the statements you did. Memorisation is part of every knowledge field. Mathematicians memorise standard equations, they memorise "models" and then reproduce them in practice. In humanities memorisation also has a great part but that can only be said in fields such as history. Literature and linguistics for instance have nothing to do with memorisation though (apart from the necessary theory to be memorised which is common place for every knowledge field). Especially in the latter, there are projects done by students which utilise critical thinking, ability to reduce and combine, the ability to present the foundings in a coherent way through analysing the data in every way possible; even exercises (in morphology or morphophonology or phonetics for instance). Research in humanities is not just memorisation and its really mindblowing to believe it is.
And to use your own words:
How would a normal person be able to make the link between the basic function of language to the very basic principles upon which the human brain works; a theory that language is the way to find universal elements in human psychological structure? Or with psychology in general, or with sociology or with any other field of humanities? The first point was by Noam Chomsky through his theory of generative grammar.
You see humanities have their own "Einstein"s and their own remarkable discoveries (or outstanding theories) but in our era, the attention and interest is drawn mostly by sciences due to their sudden developement in the last century and their practical nature which is more approachable and seen as more useful.
And like I said before that doesnt mean that mathematicians are more intelligent than linguists or that physicists are more intelligent than archeologists.
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