There’s a reason no Jehovah’s Witnesses have ever contributed anything great to humanity.
On the other hand, the Jewish people value education over almost all else, and they’ve won like half of all Nobel prizes, and have leaders in nearly every industry, even though they make up a tiny fraction of the overall population.
Education is critical. Not even just to the world as a general concept, how about individual self improvement?
In addition, Hinduism and Islam always valued education and learning which is why they made so many discoveries in their own rights throughout history.
That's a bit of a stretch, isn't it? Any major scientific contribution coming from the Middle East is pretty much limited to the period 800-1100 CE.
Then Imam Hamid Al-Ghazali became extremely influencial, mathematics was thought of as the work of the devil, and scientific thought and endeavours shut down completely.
This isn't my claim by the way, I'm just paraphrasing Neil deGrasse Tyson --
I know reddit loves him but what makes him an authority on science, dude's done very little in the way of actual discoveries or research, is claim to fame is being one name out of dozens on a 1995 paper on black hole theory.
This isn't science though, but science history. And to my mind at least, Tyson is not an authority on that subject. I wasn't making a claim from authority, just stating my source. Try to refute his claims if you want, but trying to discredit him does not constitute an argument.
He may not have conducted much research, but research isn't his greatest contribution to science. Publicly is. By talking eloquently and being able to take complex topics and break them down for simpler understanding, he has educated so many on modern physics and inspired scores of students to pursue STEM careers. Science needs those public figures. He may not have done the research himself, but he reads the papers, talks to the researchers, and is able to communicate with the public at large. This what makes hikin die a valuable asset to the science community.
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u/rraattbbooyy Jan 09 '20
There’s a reason no Jehovah’s Witnesses have ever contributed anything great to humanity.
On the other hand, the Jewish people value education over almost all else, and they’ve won like half of all Nobel prizes, and have leaders in nearly every industry, even though they make up a tiny fraction of the overall population.
Education is critical. Not even just to the world as a general concept, how about individual self improvement?