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Who is the greatest scientist of all time

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chicken
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Go Feynman!
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Feb 21 2014 8:36PM
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broto
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tesla
Feb 21 2014 8:37PM
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Da_Buddha
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Feb 21 2014 8:39PM
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GayWolf420
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god
Feb 21 2014 8:40PM
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stickski
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Tycho Brahe.
Feb 21 2014 8:46PM
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zues
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lmao please dude. if you have any clue of how civilization has evolved you would vote Tesla. It's good to see him winning.


Darwin? lmao yea right dude. evolution is just something he wrote down in a book that everyone already knew.
Feb 21 2014 8:46PM
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DIX~
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Tesla fer sher
Feb 21 2014 8:46PM
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zues
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Mendel definitely deserves credit for his physiologic theory.
Feb 21 2014 8:47PM
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Aidan-G
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Me, I discovered that if I jerk off 15 times in a day my dick gets chafed
Feb 21 2014 8:57PM
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chicken
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almost added him. also almost put bernoulli but then no one would no which one. also skipped a few other of the quantum guys like pauili dyson, etc.
Feb 21 2014 9:10PM
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squashmosh
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Siddhartha Gautama
Feb 21 2014 9:11PM
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Chubz.
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Feb 21 2014 9:12PM
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Mids
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Where's bill nye?
Feb 21 2014 9:15PM
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Aidan-G
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Feb 21 2014 9:16PM
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elinde
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I think Hawking deserves a spot on there no?
Feb 21 2014 9:25PM
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bakedpow
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bill nye! duh
Feb 21 2014 9:28PM
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ModMommy
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Fun fact! Because Darwin never went out to promote his book his friends did it for him. Becaus eof misscimunications from his frinds people didn't actually take what the book was saying and apply it. At the time, people thought it proved the chain of greater being, when it was inteded to prove the opposite of it. Not everyone knew, nor beleived, in evolutoion.
Feb 21 2014 9:34PM
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jmasterp
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Newton
Feb 21 2014 9:37PM
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_DUSTY_
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What Tesla did was absolutely integral to society however he was a nut.

I would say Newton or Leibniz because of calculus. I know this is about scientists however pretty much all modern day science wouldn't exist without calculus.
Feb 21 2014 9:41PM
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Chubz.
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Feb 21 2014 9:42PM
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ThaLorax
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Voted Tesla with Musk is holding up the legacy now.
Feb 21 2014 9:44PM
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Byron_tha_gr8
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Capurnicus?

And for me its Da Vinci
Feb 21 2014 9:46PM
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ZachAndCheese
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Tom Wallisch hands down
Feb 21 2014 10:04PM
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blatt
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Newton duh. First guy to start doing quantitative physics and also invented calculus as a side gig for his physics
Feb 21 2014 10:05PM
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squashmosh
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I'm not amazingly well informed but it was my understanding that most current physicists have actually rejected most of what Newton theorized, specifically the field of quantum physics.
Feb 21 2014 11:43PM
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GrumpisPringle
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Henry eyring reppin utah bitches
Feb 21 2014 11:47PM
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Jeebus.
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Vote hiesenburg for walt
Feb 21 2014 11:47PM
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soulskier
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How are we defining greatest? I would say the most influential over the most fascinating
Feb 21 2014 11:49PM
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Schmaelzle
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Uhhh Fritjof Capra. Or Heraclitus. Actually, Euclid. Euclid is the correct answer.
Feb 21 2014 11:50PM
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skiersupreme
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Feb 21 2014 11:58PM
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jmasterp
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People fail to understand all Bill Nye did for the field. He has to be on the list, all jokes aside.
Feb 22 2014 12:10AM
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gravel
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Sagan!
Feb 22 2014 12:11AM
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blatt
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Newton's theories only fail at the extremes: really large and really small. Quantum mechanics and strong/weak forces now govern the mechanics of the really small(electrons and subatomic particles like quarks), and general relativity describes the mechanics of the really large (nebulae, etc.). However, newton's original mechanics are still very valid for our level of mechanics. Without newton's work, no other fields of physics would've transpired (including E&M, relativity, optics, quantum mechanics, relativity, and all off the other fields that branched off of physics). Newton is the originator of taking a mathematical approach to physics; that's why he's the best scientist ever.
Feb 22 2014 12:38AM
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bakedpow
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oh i know trust me. i was just making fun of the man, the myth the legend bill nye.
Feb 22 2014 12:47AM
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notspoicey
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without newton there would be no skiing
Feb 22 2014 12:50AM
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corona
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list should include Aristotle, Pasteur, and Archimedes.
Feb 22 2014 12:52AM
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squashmosh
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Thank you for this post! I was just being argumentative for the sake of learning something like this.
Feb 22 2014 12:57AM
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gotti
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I dont understand how tesla is even on the list. Compared to Newton, galileo, and einstein his inventions were childs play
Feb 22 2014 1:16AM
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Peter.
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mendel discovered genetics too, don't forget about that
Feb 22 2014 1:17AM
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fupaface
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Albert Hofmann
Feb 22 2014 1:44AM
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DIX~
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Were they though? Tesla gets my vote...
Feb 22 2014 1:48AM
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No.Quarter
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I voted for Tesla because I couldn't vote for Nye.

Nye is probably the most influential scientist ever, which makes him the greatest
Feb 22 2014 1:49AM
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squashmosh
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I voted Mendel.

Mendel was a monk.

That's what Ham would tell you.

Feb 22 2014 1:49AM
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KL.
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I'm the best scientist of all time. fuck your list
Feb 22 2014 1:57AM
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fishstamp
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were is the bill nye option….
Feb 22 2014 2:33AM
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Aidan-G
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I don't think you guys realize how groundbreaking this discovery was
Feb 22 2014 2:34AM
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Arabian
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>no Ed Witten.
>no David Hilbert
>no Henri Poincare
>no Emmy Noether


Heathen scum.
Feb 22 2014 2:46AM
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chicken
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I guess poincare can be added because there are a few other mathematicians on the list already.

fuck hilbert though. who the hell wants rigorous math in physics?
Feb 22 2014 5:12AM
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chicken
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*primarily
Feb 22 2014 5:13AM
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JAHpow
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Nicolaus Copernicus

Mainly because of his book "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres".
Feb 22 2014 1:34PM
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Byron_tha_gr8
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I don't know why you guys are all up on Tesla's cock. He did some cool shit, basically invented AC current, but he really didnt do nearly as much as Einstein, Da Vinci, or Galileo. Kind of a one trick pony, who was working with pretty useless and obscure science at the time.

He kind of is the scientist of where we are, I see Einstein as the mind that could see where we're going. Hawking is also up there, a lot of people see him as a celebrity scientist, like Bill Nye, but he has done some serious groundbreaking shit, especially with his newest black hole theory.

Space is the future, not AC currents. Tesla was just a building block.
Feb 22 2014 1:53PM
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