Originally Posted by Rev:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
For the most part every thing you touch and feel has improved your life came from academia.
* I am sure you'll agree with me that less than 1% of the people in academia do useful work. The remainder write and talk a lot of bullshit and expect to be taken seriously.
Rev
Less than one percent of the world are geniuses. Most do grunt work indeed but grunts in the academy sifts out useful purpose from the vision of geniuses. I remember Hardy noting that the world will not care about his explorations in pure mathematics. However he knew his was successful a successful life that because his knowledge caused him and recognize Ramanujan when he saw him.