What little intelect we have can be directed to other parts of the vast endless ocean of unknown things.

I hear some specialists (specially multi-disiplinary ones) write things they know few or no one can read. (Which is the most ironic reason for being rejected by a journal)

I recall a funny moment on irc where a truly helpful guy moaned that no one helped him when he had a (programming) question. He was very good at many programming languages and worked in some mix of high level physics and mathematics. He posted SO questions that rarely got an appologetic response from someone able to understand the code and the physics but couldnt wrap around the math. lol I hope he finally gets some help with his wizardry.