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28 September 2015

A Conjecture On The Purpose Of Academia

My conjecture is this:
Academia exists to protect society from the risks associated with having too many geniuses making decisions in our lives in the worlds of business and politics.  The most dangerous geniuses of all are safely sealed away from the real world in posts as professors of theoretical physics. (Once upon a time they would have been made professors of theology and philosophy.)

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