(May 12, 2009 at 9:36 am)g-mark Wrote: My initial background is science. I have no hatred for science. In fact, science is one of the keys to understanding.
OK, my mistake. What did you do?
(May 12, 2009 at 9:36 am)g-mark Wrote: But from my experience, extremelly intelligent people are little quirky. Some people call them 'nut jobs' as they don't understand what the 'intelligent' person talks about about. If you talk to any average blue collar worker at the pub about science, he/she will call you a 'nut job' or look at you strange. It is just an observation I have encountered. Also, many scientists/professors are little different due to thier increased intellect. A good example is the movie 'A Beautiful Mind'.
Personally, I consider people who understand science to have a beautiful minds, as many of my school friends did.
I think I agree with what you're saying, I suppose having an anti-intellectual society (for the most part) adds to this perception.
Like kids who prefer to read over playing computer games, for example, are seen as "wierd".
But this doesn't detract from any scientific conclusions made. I think you were implying it does, you said earlier "I will never trust anything a theoretical physicist tells me" (I paraphrase, it's on a different page), because mainstream society sees them as wierd?
Galileo was a man of science oppressed by the irrational and superstitious. Today, he is used by the irrational and superstitious who claim they are being oppressed by science - Mark Crislip
