"Miss You" Should Be More Than A Rolling Stones Song

“For hundreds of years, since the dawn of modern science, only a small fraction of the world's population has participated in the advancement of humanity's knowledge of the Universe. If game-changers like Copernicus, Newton, Einstein and Feynman emerge at a rate of < 1% from the white male population, increasing the population to include underrepresented minorities and women (not to mention people from other countries!) will greatly increase the numbers of brilliant individuals coming up with creative solutions to long-standing problems. I don't think it's unreasonable to attribute the slow progress in the understanding of, say, dark matter and dark energy to an artificially reduced talent pool. Scientific innovation cares not for humanity's arbitrary racial and socio-economic boundaries.”