It’s funny (no it isn’t) but I don’t think of Scientists as intellectuals. Not that they aren’t of the highest mental faculties and using it for good, but intellectuals tend to be those who appreciate thinking for its own sake, a subset of deep thinkers, if you will.
The Sartre jokes are, QED, intellectual jokes, but the science jokes are not.
Call me a stickler, but don’t call me an intellectual. I have a rolodex for that.
