04-11-2020, 09:59 AM
(04-11-2020, 05:50 AM)Blazkovitz Wrote: I cannot choose between Copernicus, Newton and Darwin.
Copernicus - showed us our place in the Cosmos.
Newton - proved that reality works according to mathematical laws. His laws have immense practical applications.
Darwin - "nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution"
Since I could enumerate two reasons to honour Newton, perhaps he should be the greatest.
Since science builds on itself, unlike art that often takes tangents, it's hard to set the great works of any single scientist against those of another. In 1905, Einstein published his dissertation and four seminal papers on he photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity, and the equivalence of mass and energy, all 4 more than adequate to trigger a Nobel Prize in Physics. He was 26, and just getting started. Does Einstein make the cut? Of course, but it's still impossible to say who is the singular Greatest Scientist of All Time.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.