Empirically, I'd say most progress is made not by geniuses, but regular joe-smo scientists and engineers attacking problems in their field for incremental gains

Empirically, I'd say most progress is made not by geniuses, but regular joe-smo scientists and engineers attacking problems in their field for incremental gains in understanding. I tire of the hero worship and mythologies we place on genius when I know that most of the time genius just means right place right time on the shoulders of 'incremental' giants.