Most people are smarter than the famous scientists of yore.\u00a0 Look at what the average eighth-grader knows and understands about the world.\u00a0 Certainly more than Copernicus, Galileo, and perhaps even Newton.<\/p>\n
I’m not saying we are more intelligent or have better insight than these famous scientists.\u00a0 They had a certain intuition and drive for discovery that most people lack.\u00a0 But in terms of mere facts about the world, we probably know more about more things than they did.\u00a0 Granted our knowlege is built upon their work.\u00a0 We’ve had hundreds of years of technoligical improvements upon which to draw.\u00a0 As the world’s population\u00a0has grown, more knowledge has accumulated, and the collective knowledge of individuals has increased dramatically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Most people are smarter than the famous scientists of yore.\u00a0 Look at what the average eighth-grader knows and understands about the world.\u00a0 Certainly more than Copernicus, Galileo, and perhaps even Newton. I’m not saying we are more intelligent or have better insight than these famous scientists.\u00a0 They had a certain intuition and drive for discovery … Continue reading “Smarter than your Average Scientist?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}