Fascinating. I wonder what the perspective of someone who can trace an idea from the earliest cultures to the present-day is and how it differs from people who

Fascinating. I wonder what the perspective of someone who can trace an idea from the earliest cultures to the present-day is and how it differs from people who have 200-yr or 2000-year scope. Would a chemist who is also an alchemist and speaks Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, Coptic, Arabic, Latin, English and Lisp be different than a chemist?