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Yeah, that's right
Who's the greatest scientist of all time according to your opinion and why?
Who's the greatest scientist of all time according to your opinion and why?
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heartless said:Yeah, that's right
Who's the greatest scientist of all time according to your opinion and why?
yomamma said:trick question...
yomamma said:trick question...
I'll say Moonbear
arildno said:Why obnoxiously self-aggrandizing individuals like Feynman and Stephen Hawking gets onto these lists surprise me, so I'll go for either Newton or Bohr.
Come to think of it, no one was more obnoxious than Newton, so I'll stick with Bohr..He was a nice guy
arildno said:Why does it matter to make all these idiotic ranking lists Americans are so pathologically fond of?
Who's the greatest scientist of all time?
Alan Briggs said:The answer is clear and the responses are singularly incorrect.
fourier jr said:Galileo obviously, for mathematicizing science. Everything Newton, Einstein & all the rest afterwards was an example of Galileo's philosophy & nothing more. Descartes gets an honourable mention for having simialr views.
Alan Briggs said:The last comment to my post missed my point that was perhaps unclear.
Alan Briggs said:The answer is clear and the responses are singularly incorrect.
Charles Darwin represents the greatest scientist of all time. No other scientist has created a body of work that has advanced our understanding and view of practically everything including our overall position in the world. No other scientist was so challenged in his views, as advanced in his global explanations and reasoning or broadly accepted by so large a body of people. And yet amazingly, to this day, to so many, the results of his work remains so controversial 150 years or so on. Even the understanding of our political and economic world, although still primitive, controlling all our daily lives, is best understood as an extension of Darwinian theory of the ultimate survival of the successful, that is fittest; that is, where, at least we are all completely driven by Darwin's thinking here.
This ultimate recognition is evidenced where Darwin is prominently featured currently on a major reserve currency recognizing the man who was clearly right on the money all the time.
Surprise runners up include Ludwig Boltzmann who took statistical insight to the finest level that is appropriately recognized in the most fundamental constant in all of science. Newton, Maxwell and Einstein provided the greatest scientific insight in unifying, and ultimately 'simplifying', our understanding of nature. This advancing work has yet to be completed by the greatest scientist of all time who may not even have been born yet.
An answer supporting recognition of any great scientist can never be as important, or as interesting, as the thoughtful understanding that goes behind it.