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Anonymous Sun Dec 19 00:34:10 2010 No.2223542 [Reply] [Original]

Itt: overrated scientists

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 00:35:10 2010 No.2223546 File: 53 KB, 324x450, tesla.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This thread is now underrated scientists. Pic related.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 00:35:10 2010 No.2223545 >Trying to troll during a /b/ raid Hurrr

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 00:35:10 2010 No.2223547 File: 13 KB, 360x360, Stephen-Hawking.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] hawking isnt even in the top 100 physisists he just has good publicity

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 00:45:10 2010 No.2223574 File: 24 KB, 330x427, 65879main_kepler-portrait-330-427.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2223546 I doubt you would find many people who know who this guy is, despite his massive contributions to science.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 00:46:10 2010 No.2223576 >>2223574 Of course we know who Kepler is. But he looks different in that painting than other times I've seen him.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 00:47:10 2010 No.2223580 >>2223547 I like watching midgets dance, and I like watching cripples do theoretical physics, it's kinda the same.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 01:02:10 2010 No.2223611 Neil De Grasse Tyson.jpeg overrated buy i still like him

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 01:03:10 2010 No.2223615 >>2223576 Well WE know who he is. But compared to his compatriots like Galileo and Copernicus he gets very little love.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 01:09:10 2010 No.2223630 >>2223611 I don't think anyone considers him a great physicist, he's just known for being a competent personality

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 01:13:10 2010 No.2223640 >>2223547 He can't even walk.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 01:27:10 2010 No.2223676 >people who barely grasp undergrad physics discussing overrated scientists derp ok, tesla is the most overrated scientist, at least among pop sci faggots

>>	olias Sun Dec 19 01:30:10 2010 No.2223686 einstein is not overrated, he merely gets alot of lip service when people truly do not understand him. his scientific accomplishments were truly devoted, but his character was really his strongpoint

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 01:34:10 2010 No.2223702 Newton, that niggers most famous equation isn't even right.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 01:37:10 2010 No.2223707 Isaac Newton. Sure as a mathematician he's god-like, but science-wise he was very lacking and questionable. Not to mention most of his work are starting to appear outdated, especially when Einstein took on the law of gravity in relativity.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 01:40:10 2010 No.2223712 Richard Dawkins

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 01:43:10 2010 No.2223718 >>2223712 Yes. Fuck that guy. He was a mediocre biologist so he got famous off philosophy instead

Anonymous Sun Dec 19 01:46:10 2010 No.2223722

>>2223707
I disagree. Under "normal" scale conditions (IE Non-quantum, non-relativistic) Newton's formulae and observations hold up very well, and still create accurate predictions. Not to mention that his framework is what enabled latter advancement to take place.

By contrast, mathematically speaking, his notation was garbage, and he actually did a fair amount of damage to mathematical progress that could have been avoided had he not slandered Leibniz into oblivion.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 01:49:10 2010 No.2223728 >>2223722 Ugh, dat notation. I tried to look at Principia once but its just a big shitstorm of tl;dr. He needed an editor

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 01:49:10 2010 No.2223729 Dont forget the environment he was trying to do science in. Newton practiced alchemy because chemistry had yet to be invented!

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 01:52:10 2010 No.2223736 Cough Sagan cough

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 01:52:10 2010 No.2223739 Carl Sagan, because he made science a religion full of pseudo-intellectual fucktards. Also Darwin. Without his theory of evolution, communism and fascism could have been avoided completely, and America would be able to make the world a freer place.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 01:54:10 2010 No.2223742 File: 4 KB, 203x221, 1286416020534-1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2223739 Lolwut

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 01:58:10 2010 No.2223750 >>2223739 >implying evolution doesn't demonstrate that all human beings are one species with only a few minor superficial differences between races

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 02:01:10 2010 No.2223755 Rey Kurzweil (when you try to pass of a book entitled "Age of SPIRITUAL machines" as a "scientifically"-accurate prediction of the future, you should be ignored). Regardless, I'm still a Singularitarian.

Anonymous Sun Dec 19 02:03:10 2010 No.2223760

>>2223739
>and America would be able to make the world a freer place.
You realize that in the years between 1945 and 1991 we would install military dictatorships in order to overthrow democratically elected socialist regimes, right? And that evolution has much broader implications than simple Marxism, right?

Seriously, are you retarded or just a bad troll?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 02:16:10 2010 No.2223798 >>2223760 Judging by your lengthy response I'd say he's a successful troll

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 02:20:10 2010 No.2223813 File: 1.26 MB, 296x160, 1287295504926.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mfw when no biologists are gonna be in this thread even though most of /sci/ can't name any biologists other than Darwin

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 02:26:10 2010 No.2223829 File: 106 KB, 737x900, Goethe_(Stieler_1828).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This motherfucker did shit. More overrated than Tyson.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 02:30:10 2010 No.2223835 File: 9 KB, 200x248, feynman.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] highly overated

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 02:34:10 2010 No.2223842 Overrated scientists: -Albert Einstein -Stephen Hawking -Carl Sagan -Richard P. Feynman -Nikola Tesla -Charles Darwin -Richard Dawkins (if you can actually call him a scientist) -Isaac Newton (...)

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 02:37:10 2010 No.2223853 >>2223798 >Three sentences >Lengthy Nah.

Anonymous Sun Dec 19 02:46:10 2010 No.2223871

>>2223842
Einstein isn't overrated, he's one of the fathers of modern physics. Sure, some others should be as popular as him, but at least the public recognizes one genius.

Hawking only because of the public opinion that he's the smartest man alive or whatever; he's one of the more legit physicists out of the pop science writers.

Feynman was extremely important to physics, he got the Nobel for a reason.

Agree with the rest mostly.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 02:48:10 2010 No.2223876 >>2223842 Did you just list all of the scientists you could think of?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 02:49:10 2010 No.2223877 >>2223876 LOL

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 02:59:10 2010 No.2223897 >>2223876 no because i didn't even think at all, i just listed the scientists previously mentioned itt. nice try though.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 03:04:10 2010 No.2223912 >>2223702 F = ma is wrong? Elaborate.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 03:05:10 2010 No.2223915 Bill Nye was adequate.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 03:07:10 2010 No.2223919 >>2223912 If it was, faster then light travel would be possible.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 03:12:10 2010 No.2223931 >>2223842 Stephen Hawking and Einstein are the only two on that list I will agree with.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 03:13:10 2010 No.2223932 >>2223912 Well, first, it's F = dp/dt. And second, it's "wrong" in that it lacks a gamma term to correct for relativistic speeds.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 03:15:10 2010 No.2223938 File: 8 KB, 179x190, Carl sagan cancer.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mfw you're all wrong also, pic related

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 03:17:10 2010 No.2223943 File: 117 KB, 600x507, christianityexplained.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2223842 butthurt christfag detected

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 03:53:10 2010 No.2224024 File: 9 KB, 232x148, 1290550723805y6.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Seems like a good place to drop this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Riuk8CNAA

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 04:12:10 2010 No.2224080 >>2223546 WHO DAT

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 04:16:10 2010 No.2224092 File: 212 KB, 1415x1684, curie.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] You are all overlooking the most obviously overrated scientist ever. What kind of dumb bitch gets radiation poisoning from making a sandwich?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 04:20:10 2010 No.2224105 File: 24 KB, 563x450, ray_comfort.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] most underrated scientist

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 19 04:32:10 2010 No.2224137 File: 15 KB, 302x372, classic-jesus.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This thread is now about overrated rabbis

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