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Originally Posted by Kaptain K
1) Bill Gates is not a physicist or an astronomer.
2 Both Einstein and Newton had Ph.D's.
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As you know, what Newton learned in his
quadrivium correspond to our 8th grade, versing on humanities and incipient algebra. Such education could be obtained at home with a little effort and interest. By no means it was enough to launch him into the vortexes of calculus. Newton deplored the university of those times. It it was a pain for him (according to "The Life Of Isaac Newton", by Richard Waterfall). He had to make the tools he needed, and his achievements stem from his merits alone. University was kind of an Academy of Notables, and to attend it was a question of social status (as it is today, to a certain extent).
Einstein was an outsider and, again, the fruits of his intellect are not owed to his academic status, or to the curriculum itself. He was intelligence in raw state, and had all the mind stuff he needed by 16. Definitely, he hadnīt to go through all the (proverbial) mental violence and humilliation he suffered at school.
Bill Gates was just an example of how boring school can be to a creative guy. He quit it while still a freshman, as you know.