Why are so many Physicists Jewish?

A Torah Anytime original series. I was once walking along one of the paths here at Princeton University when I bumped into one of the professors, Professor Fish, who's a plasma physics professor, a very thoughtful, wise Jewish man. And we started talking and he shared something that really sh stayed with me. He said, "In more than 50 years of teaching at colleges and universities, I've noticed a strange pattern. There are very few Jewish professors in fields like math and history, but there's an unusually high number of Jewish professors in physics and psychology, economics, and sociology. Why is that? Then he said he thinks he knows why. He explained that when Abrahamu stood alone against the world defending monotheism in a world basically saturated with polytheism, he wasn't just changing beliefs. He was modeling a way of thinking. He waged an intellectual war against accepted reality. And in doing so, he implanted something into the DNA of his descendants for all of history. A deep natural drive to question, to probe, to challenge, and to explore new horizons of thought. You see, Jews don't gravitate towards knowledge that's frozen in time or ideas that are settled and stale and unquestioned like math and most of history. We're wired to ask questions, to test assumptions, to stare down theories that the entire world takes for granted and ask, "What if there's something deeper? What if there's something truer?" That's why Jews show up where ideas are still alive, where thinking is dynamic, where systems are questioned, where reality itself is being examined and then re-examined and then reshaped. The Jewish people are one of the most radically transformative forces in all of human history. And it all traces its way back to Arainu. The way he saw the world, it still lives on in us. We look at that reality with curiosity and wonder, not just to understand it, but to elevate it, to uncover the wisdom and the depth and the truth of Hashem hidden beneath the surface. And that fire that Aram started is still burning inside each and every one of us. Professor Fish, stay on fire.