Do you think there is a limit to how much knowledge can be gained, /sci/? Every year we have to have more and more background 'historical' science for students to learn. People like Euler were polymaths simply because of a lack of previous large fundamental knowledge about mathematics. Today a high schooler may be required to learn these concepts. I'm not saying inventing and learning a concept are comparable, but about a shear amount of background one has to go through today.