<p>There are many different kinds of intelligence. People can be smart in different ways. You can’t just say, “Einstein was smarter than Fitzgerald.” You can compare writers to each other (to an extent) and mathematicians/scientists to each other, but to compare humanities geniuses to scientific geniuses is like comparing apples to oranges.</p>
<p>I agree that our society undervalues good writing and the humanities (how do so many people like the Twilight series?), and also that there is more to science and mathematics than memorizing facts.</p>