I suspect that “rules lawyering” and the Jewish intellectual tradition go some way to explain why, though it was people like Galileo and Newton who got it started, Jews are proportionately over-represented in physics. It’s like the entire cultural history prepared for it. While fundie Christians were saying “the nature of the world is a dark mystery known only to God and it is blasphemous to inquire further”, Jews were saying “Now we can really look at the fine print in this contract.”
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