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davidcyclebackWhen he went back to college, Homer Simpson told Marge that there are two types of people on campus, nerds and jocks, and, as a jock, nerds were his mortal enemy. Of course, no one other than Homer would classify him as a jock.
Then there was the bespectacled Milhouse's views on nerddom when Bart called him a nerd:
"I'm not a nerd. I'm not smart enough."
Likely over 50 percent of the Nobel Prize winners in physics, chemistry and medicine were/are nerds, and another 30 percent are borderline nerds-- and if that isn't a kudos to nerds I don't know what is.
I hate to break it to you guys, but Werner Heisenberg probably was a nerd. And if you know who he is without having to look it up on google, Homer might classify you as a nerd too.
Then there were Nobel Prize winner John Nash and Kurt Godel (good friend of Einstein and famous mathematician) who would be classified as a psychotic nerds. For those unfamiliar with their interesting bios, Nash was schizophrenic and, while a M.I.T. professor, believed aliens were talking to him. While a Princeton professor, Godel starved himself to death as he believed unknown people were trying to poison his food. He wouldn't even eat his own cooking.
It is an interesting comment on genius, as Godel is almost universally ranked as one of the greatest mathematicians ever, someone on par with Issac Newton.