I didn't feel like you were being arrogant at all, believe it or not. I just thought it was a neat claim and was interested in learning more. What's amazing to

I didn't feel like you were being arrogant at all, believe it or not. I just thought it was a neat claim and was interested in learning more. What's amazing to me about the PhD (and no, I don't think only the PhD) is that usually, when you're done with your research, you've actually learned something that no one anywhere has ever known before. I imagine many of us have things like that, most of it being incredibly trivial stuff (like the cat's paw example above). It's incredibly cool to think about learning something utterly novel in an area like biology or math or physics. Thanks for the response. I honestly meant no ill will, only curious.