What bizarre misconceptions do people have about your field?

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I'm a physicist and we are actually dumb as a box of rocks.

As a mathematician I will reiterate what my supervisor told me: Math is not hard, it is only we that suck at it (said in context of me complaining about having used way too much time on what I in retrospect found to be simple).

Physicist: Makes a weird formula, uses it for decades without knowing why it works.

Mathematician: Looks for an approach that makes sense for decades, dies.

I get annoyed with the way they use math sometimes, but I have to keep in mind there is an advantage to it (I guess).