/\ Was this sarcasm? Are you sure?
|| Read it again, I'll wait.
|| The results may surprise you.
Ignorant as they might be, they are right. We already have all the tools we need to make this world a better place, yet refuse to do so. Instead the "smart" guys focus on putting their names on theorems "Hawkins-radiation" "Higgs-Boson", etc. and get idealized by people.
Fact is, as of now they haven't done anything beneficial for humanity with their studies, aside from motivating people. There are much much better role models to look up to, "understanding the universe" is a fictional goal and will not help anybody...