Thank you for the great perspective. I used to be a card carrying geek, bragging about how rational and awesome I was for rejecting societal norms. Then I got a degree in mathematics and realized the universe is huge and complicated, I am tiny, and my brain is even more tiny.

The more I learn about science and the universe, the more I learn to quietly respect people who don't understand it, because even though I think I understand it better than they do, I am still in the group of "people who don't understand it".