一个爱因斯坦抵得上一支博士大军One Einstein Is Worth A Legion Of PhD Drones
Brett： 中国每年授予的理学学士和工学学士人数，比世界上任何地方都多。中国大学培养出的理科毕业生比我们多，但他们培养出的创新者并没有更多。
从中国那些大学拿着理学学位毕业的学生，并不是出去做创新的事情。恰恰相反，因为他们接受的是某种特定的训练。他们被训练去背课本、应对考试。他们不会跳出框框思考。
他们被训练成相信："这就是真理。这就是思考科学唯一不容置疑的正确方式。"正如我们所看到的，这或许有助于模仿，但它不会让你有能力去推进科技的前沿，更不用说基础物理学或其他领域了。
我不在乎他们有多少理科毕业生的统计数字。那毫无意义。给我 10 个富有创新精神和创造力的年轻物理系毕业生，也好过 5 万个都能以 100% 的效率通过考试的物理系毕业生，我随时都这么选。
Naval： 所以，一个爱因斯坦抵得上一大群拿着物理学博士学位的庸才。数量无关紧要。创造力的进阶是从 0 到 1。而且，无论你往这个问题上堆多少人，都抵达不了那个境界。这就是模因进化的本质，也是创造力的本质。
Brett: China keeps graduating more bachelor of science and bachelor of engineers than anywhere else in the world. China’s universities are pumping out more science graduates than us, but they’re not pumping out more innovators.
It’s not like the students that are coming out of those universities in China with their science degrees are going off and doing innovative stuff. It’s quite the opposite, because they’ve been trained in a particular way. They’re being trained to memorize this textbook, respond to this exam. They can’t think outside of the box.
They’ve been trained that, “This is what’s true. This is the unquestioned correct way of thinking about science.” That might be good for being able to imitate, as we see, but it’s not going to be the thing that enables you to push forward the frontier in technology, let alone fundamental physics or anywhere else.
I don’t care what the statistics are on how many science graduates they’ve got. That makes no difference. Give me 10 innovative, creative, young physics graduates over 50,000 physics graduates who all are able to pass the exam with 100% efficiency any day.
Naval: So, one Einstein is worth the legion of drones with PhDs in physics. It doesn’t matter. Creativity goes zero to one. And no amount of throwing bodies at the problem will get you there. That’s just the nature of memetic evolution; it’s just the nature of creativity.