> hundreds of years ago most interesting science, etc. was done by the royal class Not really true. Newton, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Mendel, Faraday, Tesl

> hundreds of years ago most interesting science, etc. was done by the royal class Not really true. Newton, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Mendel, Faraday, Tesla... Not from royals, nor from high nobility. Many great scientists were born to merchant families, of a level that wasn't even all too rare.