Religious Nobel Prize winners
Hello Rabbi Michi,
How do you explain that there are almost no religious Nobel Prize winners among Jews {except for Professor Omen, I don’t know of any other person} Is this related to the fact that religious society limits critical thinking to the dictates of Scripture? Or other reasons? I would love to hear your opinion!
There’s also Agnon. If you check the percentage in Israel, you’ll find that it’s about the same percentage of the population.
But even if you were right, there could be many explanations for this. For example, many religious people engage in Torah and thrive in non-academic fields. Among religious people, even the best do not necessarily strive for academic excellence. Furthermore, religious people are less dedicated to their careers. This is true not only in academia. There are almost no religious strategists.
In my opinion, limiting thinking is not a significant factor. Thinking in non-religious fields is not limited, and conversely, in my opinion, Nobel Prize winners are not necessarily particularly creative thinkers.
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Interestingly, among devout Christians there are quite a few Nobel laureates. Among them are some of the greatest scientists and physicists and the most brilliant minds. Most of them are from the Protestant side, but there are also Catholics.
Some even had theological training.
Pishita. In Christianity, they did not see a contradiction between engaging in science and mathematics and engaging in the religious spirit. They do not have kollels for studying Gemara in detail. Already in the Middle Ages, monks engaged in all the wisdom and manuscripts of all fields. Moreover, in the past, almost everyone was religious, so what is the wonder that everyone who engaged in this was also religious. Jews began to engage in all this only in recent generations (with secularization).
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