Science isn't short of brains. It's short of money. There's an overabundance of clever and highly trained people chasing too little funding, which is why you fi

Science isn't short of brains. It's short of money. There's an overabundance of clever and highly trained people chasing too little funding, which is why you find so many young scientists in their thirties grinding through second and third postdocs for crap money. I suspect you could do more good for science by working a lifetime in some well-paid career and donating a hefty portion of your profit to some science-funding organization than by trying to do science yourself. Science needs your money far more than it needs your brains.