The problem with philosophers is not that they can't find solutions, it's that they're incapable of rejecting bad ones. There are plenty of good ideas in philos

The problem with philosophers is not that they can't find solutions, it's that they're incapable of rejecting bad ones. There are plenty of good ideas in philosophy, but you can't pick them out from the flood stupid ones without thinking everything through from square one on your own. Hence the reason that millenia later we're still here debating Zeno, while physicists no longer have to bother giving much thought to 100-year-old rejected theories. A university dean approaches the chair of the Physics department and tells him, "Look, we really need to talk your budget. Every year it's particle accelerator this and supercomputer that. You're bleeding the college dry. Why can't you be more like the Math department? All they ever ask us for is pencils and chalkboards and wastebaskets. Or better yet, why can't you be like the Philosophy department? They don't even ask for wastebaskets!"