The mathematics of a janitor
The progress of the world is produced by the most capable brains, not by the number of informed people. Cognitive capacity is structural, largely innate, and non-transferable. For this reason, individuals starting from the same data may arrive at identical or radically different results. The difference between a janitor with an IQ of 90 and an astrophysicist with an IQ of 145 does not lie in access to information, but in the individual capacity to process it. Both can consult the same sources; only one is able to operate this data at deeply abstract, integrated, and critical levels.
