After Einstein Scientific Genius is extinct

Question: We tend to presume that the scientists of today are somehow more intelligent than those before. But is that true? Is any scientist today more intellegent than a Copernicus or Galileo?! or Newton!? Answer: No, it is not true that the modern society has more intelligent scientists than Copernicus or Newton. Scientists such as Einstein has given the world something new created from scratch with their surprising ideas (Shea, 2016). They have solved fundamental problems like the energy-matter relationship, planetary movements. The new advancements in the present century are the mere extension of pre-existing theories. No scientist in this century has produced entirely new domain such as "Telescopic Astronomy" by Galileo (Simonton, 2013). References Shea, W. R. (2016). Early Modern (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries) Lawrence Lipking. What Galileo Saw: Imagining the Scientific Revolution. xvi+ 314 pp., illus., bibl., apps., index. Ithaca, NY/London: Cornell University Press, 2014. $35 (cloth).History of Science,107(1). Simonton, D. K. (2013). After Einstein: scientific genius is extinct.Nature,493(7434), 602-602.