>>12313451This is blue pilled thinking. Einstein didn't
learn tons of existing research and contribute a tiny new thing. He asked entirely new questions that were accessible to a whole range of non-experts.
The popular thing to study for Einstein to study would have been civil or mechanical engineering. There were no super star scientists to base his life on.
We have to look for new roads.
> have to go through 300 years of scientific progressOnly if you are becoming an expert an increasingly narrow and deep established fields of study.
Of course, everyone needs to study some of what's done before, but if you are serious researcher your goal should be to ask new questions, not become a technical wizard in an area with a career carved out.
Unfortunately this is largely how academia works. Everything has been careered. The obsession with papers and citations is especially funny given that all the great "papers" were just letters among friends.
