If grounding breaking research and discoveries are only made

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortega_hypothesis

>>8371631
Is this a serious question? We invest in science and education because the achievements of the few provide benefits for everyone. You might as well ask why we fund public roads if only a minority of the population are road construction workers.

>>8371655
>le forced hypothesis to make an average person such as myself feel more significant

You can't deny the fact that you still need one genius at the top to lead all the thousands of mediocre and average scientists at the bottom of the food chain

>>8371660
>You might as well ask why we fund public roads

Except we don't force "Construction memes" on the masses to get them into construction like we do with "STEM memes"

>>8371791
That's right, because no one wants to be a construction worker and there are more than enough losers who are left with no other choice in life.

A leap in information requires a pile of existing information to be leapt from. The small, insignificant work enables the truly significant work.

>>8371631
>grounding breaking research and discoveries are only made by a handful of private genius individuals throughout history
That's not how it works though. Sometimes there are individuals who make a huge impact but the contributions of many lesser scientists do add up.

>>8371789
Its like your concerned about who the first gorilla poster was. It doesnt matter because the memesters that follow will permute their ideas. There being a first one is a consequence of us all being individuals.

Literally butthurt about the natute of memes

>grounding breaking research and discoveries are only made by a handful of private genius individuals
You are stuck in the tropes of the early 20th century. Science is too advanced today to depend purely on "entrepreneurs" and "inventors" and individual geniuses. Today, it takes a room full of geniuses to advance science.

>>8371631
>grounding breaking research and discoveries are only made by a handful of private genius individuals
>throughout history
nice b8