Well just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually...
My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to...
The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.