Steinhardt had flirted with the idea of retirement for years: “I don’t feel what I do is profoundly virtuous,” he had told Institutional Investor as far back as 1987. “The idea of making wealthy people wealthier is not something that strikes to the inner parts of my soul.”
And yet people keep doing it selling their souls to capitalism. I can't help but speculate how far scientific research has been impeded by drawing in so many highly educated people to a pursuit of questionable value.
