Agreed that it matters a lot to have people working on new paradigms. I guess the reason I’m absolutely not worried about lacking people like that in today’s scientific climate is that I don’t expect scientific education can get that out of someone. From my experience, there’s a small category of science students who care a lot about asking weird questions and questioning everything, and they almost never end up doing normal science.
Agreed that it matters a lot to have people working on new paradigms. I guess the reason I’m absolutely not worried about lacking people like that in today’s scientific climate is that I don’t expect scientific education can get that out of someone. From my experience, there’s a small category of science students who care a lot about asking weird questions and questioning everything, and they almost never end up doing normal science.