We Don’t Need More Scientists—We Need Better Ones

Derek Lowe- Slate -- Instapundit

----A chemist responds to Slate’s David Plotz’s claim that not enough students are going into science and engineering.


Comment:

Bigger isn't necessarily better.  More isn't necessarily better.  What drives this type of thinking is the drive towards Big Government.  Science has become a client to Big Government, so the call for more scientists is the same as the call for more government.  More jobs, you see.

The preference for Big Government in this context is another example of bad thinking.

 Albert Einstein didn't come up with the Theory of Relativity because of some government grant.  You can't always use brute force to solve a problem or make a discovery.  It requires intelligence.