Universities are good for the conventional. The incremental. But to transform humanity, those with ideas must escape the universities

“Newcomen’s religion had consequences greater than absence from a local census.  Dissenters, including Baptists, Presbyterians, and others, were as a class, excluded from universities after 1660, and either apprenticed, or learned their science from dissenting academies.”

“At the same time that he chartered the world’s first scientific society, Charles II had created an entire generation of dissenting intellectuals uncontrolled by his kingdom’s ever more technophobic universities.”

p29, Rosen, Willam, ‘The Most Powerful Idea in the World’

So he’s the bastard who set up the abuse known as “calculus”. A true revenge on “normies”.