Who are your intellectual heroes? Picture related, s'mine.

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Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:25:47 2011 No.3947658 [Reply] [Original]

Who are your intellectual heroes?

Picture related, s'mine.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:26:47 2011 No.3947667 Richard Feynman

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:27:47 2011 No.3947670 >this fucker >intellectual choose one He was a goddamn stoner and a failure at life. He didn't manage to go into research, that's why he had to produce a children's tv show instead. You are a pathetic retard for admiring such a loser.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:27:47 2011 No.3947671 File: 103 KB, 461x640, Karl_Marx.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] read him, he's interesting

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:28:47 2011 No.3947672 Richard Feynman Richard Stallman Richard Dawkins

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:28:47 2011 No.3947673 richard dawkins christopher hitchens sam harris daniel dennet james randi

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:28:47 2011 No.3947675 I am my own intellectual hero.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:28:47 2011 No.3947677 >>3947670 either you're a troll or an idiot whichever is it, gtfo

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:28:47 2011 No.3947678 File: 56 KB, 500x750, cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Eliezer Yudkowsky.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:29:47 2011 No.3947679 >>3947675 That's recursive and it won't work, you'll just be stuck in an infinite loop.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:29:47 2011 No.3947680 File: 74 KB, 291x291, 1319472139444.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3947673 Troll harder.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:30:47 2011 No.3947684 File: 21 KB, 169x194, imokwiththis.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3947672 Also Hawking and Kurzweil.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:30:47 2011 No.3947685 spinoza, tesla, newton

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:30:47 2011 No.3947687 >>3947679 Not at all. I just look back on myself and think, "Yeah, that was pretty cool." That gives me inspiration to push forward.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:31:47 2011 No.3947688 Francis Bacon, he's the original scientist.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:31:47 2011 No.3947691 >>3947677 Nope. I'm saying the truth.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:31:47 2011 No.3947692 File: 25 KB, 410x424, 1319326266003.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3947684 Kurzweil is nothing more than a living parody of himself.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:31:47 2011 No.3947694 >>3947680 hey they're all smart guys. You're just jelly and/or too hipster to appreciate popular atheists

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:32:47 2011 No.3947695 File: 62 KB, 500x278, Untitled.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] was gonna make a thread for this pic, but oh look...

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:32:47 2011 No.3947698 File: 32 KB, 350x285, dontfuckwithhitchens.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] he made me realize that george w bush was a good president and the iraq war was the right thing to do

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:32:47 2011 No.3947699 File: 15 KB, 149x178, Aki_Zeta-5.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Aki Zeta 5

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:32:47 2011 No.3947696 >>3947684 >Kurzweil >not a pathetic crackpot who makes obvious short term predictions to make people believe his nerd cult get the fuck out.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:33:47 2011 No.3947700 >>3947698 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwDYbNIHyN0 I agree. Hitchens is god.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:33:47 2011 No.3947701 >>3947677 >>3947691 I'm a fan of Carl Sagan, but this guy is right. I don't know a single scientist who actually gives a damn about him, either.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:33:47 2011 No.3947702 >>3947701 brian cox

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:34:08 2011 No.3947703 >>3947701 Neil deNigger Tyson

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:34:47 2011 No.3947705 >>3947702 [citation needed] >>3947703 Other than people who knew him.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:35:42 2011 No.3947708 File: 146 KB, 455x396, neiltyson.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:35:47 2011 No.3947709 >>3947700 i was being sarcastic, hitchens is a fucking moron and a dangerous one at that because he has a large audience of credulous atheists to buy his empty arguments for murderous illegal wars. good thing he had the sense to kill himself off

>>	Teacup !obkpuSWh5M Mon Oct 24 13:36:47 2011 No.3947710 Michio Kaku

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:36:47 2011 No.3947712 >>3947710 Do you listen to his podcast?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:36:47 2011 No.3947713 >>3947708 >Manages to be off by 10 minutes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:37:47 2011 No.3947715 File: 51 KB, 400x400, bill nye fuck yeah.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Pic related fuck your shit

>>	Teacup !obkpuSWh5M Mon Oct 24 13:37:47 2011 No.3947717 >>3947712 No.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:38:47 2011 No.3947718 >>3947670 I believe you're thinking of Bill Nye.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:38:47 2011 No.3947720 >>3947717 How come?

>>	Teacup !obkpuSWh5M Mon Oct 24 13:40:47 2011 No.3947723 >>3947720 I prefer reading his books. Sometimes I watch him talk about things on youtube though.

Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:41:47 2011 No.3947728

>>3947705
http://www.ted.com/talks/brian_cox_on_cern_s_supercollider.html

13:00

>>3947709

I'm not asking that you agree with everything he says. That would be retarded, but you can nonetheless respect him as a journalist. His writing is respected even by the christians I know. What he has to say on bin laden is brilliant and everyone should read it.

Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:44:47 2011 No.3947734
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ITT:
>bawww, science isn't popular
>bawww, I hate people who try to make science popular
Whine more, maybe people will get tired of you and discontinue your grant.

I don't really have intellectual heroes. Everyone is just human, with human strengths and human weaknesses.

And I'm okay with that.

Do notice that I'm not saying there aren't heroic people.
I'm just saying they're not mine.

>>	rdaneel !G29xXJqgSI Mon Oct 24 13:51:47 2011 No.3947750 File: 92 KB, 392x633, FM2030.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] FM-2030 for mine.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:56:47 2011 No.3947762 kaku troll.jpg

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:57:47 2011 No.3947765 File: 84 KB, 668x375, S3bec.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3947710

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 13:58:47 2011 No.3947768 Stephen hawking, christopher walken and marconi.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:01:47 2011 No.3947778 File: 531 KB, 900x900, intellectual3x3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:01:47 2011 No.3947779 >>3947765 >>3947762 It is this anti-popularizer mindset that is killing science. Society will become increasing anti-science if we make no effort to communicate.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:02:47 2011 No.3947781 >>3947778 more than half of those are worthless gobshites that added nothing to science except lies and fraud.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:02:47 2011 No.3947784 >>3947778 >No Dawkins >Kaku retard biology ignorant detected

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:04:47 2011 No.3947795 >>3947784 >Implying I don't own all of Dawkins' works >Implying popularizing science is a bad thing

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:04:47 2011 No.3947798 >>3947779 What makes you a part of the scientific community? >implying being a neckbeard who watches David Attenborough documentaries while eating cheetos in his underwear isn't the extent of your scientific involvement

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:05:47 2011 No.3947800 >>3947768 >christopher walken wat >stephen hawking lolwat >marconi -10/10

>>	ServeThePeople !!f20h1mWi1Xv Mon Oct 24 14:05:47 2011 No.3947801 Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Lenin, Mao, Lin Biao, Che. Both Adam Smith and Karl Marx helped the understanding the fatal fallacies of capitalism.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:06:47 2011 No.3947802 >>3947778 >>3947781 >>3947784 >>3947795 It's just good that we all agree philosophers do not deserve to be on these lists.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:07:47 2011 No.3947809 >>3947802 well personally nietzsche would be on my list.

Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:08:47 2011 No.3947810

kaku has said:

-humans don't evolve anymore
-''rough evolution''
-godfads and atheists are equally right
-bullshit about the future
-bullshit about physics
-arrogant tone
-works in a program that takes pseudoscience as science sometimes
-selfish egomaniac cunt
-loves his own voice
-loves to appear everywhere to say ''futuristic bullshit'' instead of teaching actual science

>>	not that guy Mon Oct 24 14:09:47 2011 No.3947814 >>3947798 Nice comeback there, buddy. You didn't even disagree with his point. Only insults? Your debate-fu is weak.

Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:09:47 2011 No.3947815
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This man right here. He showed that in order to introduce social change we must be kind and present our philosophy in a peaceful manner. Even though we do not have monetary system that adheres to this, altruism will always be socially favorable.

He is relevant to my interests because I want to impose a social construction on society. The construction is this:

The differences between people are ridiculous and immaterial, therefore we should not ever consider ourselves truly different. We Are Humans.

It is my hope that such an imposition would unify people under a common human banner and help to concrete our capabilities as a Species and generate a Human Direction of prosperity and scientific forwardness.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:10:47 2011 No.3947818 >>3947672 Those guys are dicks.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:10:47 2011 No.3947823 File: 20 KB, 398x343, 3785.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3947818

Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:11:47 2011 No.3947824
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>>3947798
>semantics
You can spend your time yelling at a wall about the implied meaning of the term "scientists" and "we" of other posters or you can discuss the topic at hand. It's your choice.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:12:47 2011 No.3947829 >>3947778 Who are the bottom 3?

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>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:15:47 2011 No.3947835 File: 72 KB, 466x700, 418804458.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3947810 He's also socially retarded: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjakcKCINnc

Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:21:47 2011 No.3947850
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OP never said "scientists", he said "intellectual heroes". That could mean that their attitude and approach is what we admire, not their feild of research.
Pic related, mine I know he's not a "real scientist", but Arthur C Clarke's writing sparked trails of thought that led to real scientific advancement. As a child, he was who first really inspired my interest in futurism and science. He inspires me to inspire.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:22:47 2011 No.3947853 >>3947829 James Watson, John Candy, Christopher Lee

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:22:47 2011 No.3947854 File: 18 KB, 395x315, Brian_Cox.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] professor brian cox is mine

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>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:23:47 2011 No.3947856 >>3947850 >as a child, i was inspired by a pedo

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:28:47 2011 No.3947869 >>3947673 >Richard Dawkins I fear for the future. Try Nietzche.

>>	troll Mon Oct 24 14:28:47 2011 No.3947871 Carl Sagan died of cancer. Cristopher Hitchens is dieing of cancer. Proof that God exists and that He hates atheists.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:29:47 2011 No.3947876 >>3947869 >hur dur. he's a vocal atheist so he must be stupid and evul

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:31:47 2011 No.3947887 >>3947709 Since when is opposing tyrannical dictators considered a bad thing? And if you're going to take that approach, no war is legal.

Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:32:47 2011 No.3947891

>>3947876
Oh no. He might be a decent biologist, but he is no historian or philosopher. Please do note that I pointed you to Nietzche, a much better writer on the topic, and the many issues faith (and the lack of it) brings.

And if you can stomach it, Schopenhauer.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:32:47 2011 No.3947894 >>3947871 the pope died obviously god hates catholics to hendrix drowned, apparently god hates musicians to bill hicks died of cancer, apparently god hates ...oh jfk got assasinated, apparently god loves snipers

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:34:47 2011 No.3947901 File: 75 KB, 500x500, 1318592397306.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3947894 >know you're being trolled >respond anyway

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:35:47 2011 No.3947909 >>3947901 > can't detect a samefag inb4 samefag

Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:37:47 2011 No.3947913

>>3947891

he doesn't claim to be a historian or philosopher. why would you critique him on this basis? unless you thought he was meant to be either of these? Oh dear god i hope not, for your sake...

Nietzche is popular but he is entry level philosophy. Schopenhauer is even worse.

the best philosophers are still plato aristotle and kant

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:37:47 2011 No.3947916 >>3947909 >cant detect a non-samefag inb4 samefag

Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:42:47 2011 No.3947932

>>3947913
I would point at the irony in your statements, but this is pretty obvious. I suggested those two, since they supported atheism, which is the only reason one would read Dawkins. His retelling of History is lacking, at best, if not opinionated. The same goes with the way his logic/philosophy goes.

And if you want someone to popularize science, Bill Nye did a much better job than Dawkins will ever do in a thousand years.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:44:47 2011 No.3947945 File: 55 KB, 408x300, peter_singer1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Singer Russell (minus the racism) Hitchens Dawkins Orwell Bonhoeffer

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:45:47 2011 No.3947950 >>3947698 But he only argued for the latter...

Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:46:47 2011 No.3947963

>>3947932
Wrong. His writing on evolution while basic is some of the best and much better than anything he has to say on atheism, though I don't begrudge his influence here. If you actually read and watch his stuff, you'd see it is just as good as sagan and bye and all the other 'science communicators'.

Also, what irony are you talking about?

Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:50:47 2011 No.3947978
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this man. enormous contributions and intellect, doesn't seem to pop up in things like this as much as others. other intellectual "heroes" include kelvin, pauling, newton.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:53:47 2011 No.3947990 >>3947978 shit, forgot norman borlaug for sheer contribution to humanity.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:56:47 2011 No.3947999 >>3947963 Except we are not discussing evolution or science, but "intellectuals". Philosophers, if you will. No one is challenging his views on evolution, but his views on everything else.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:58:47 2011 No.3948013 >>3947999 intellect doesn't include science? well fuck you. why dyou mention bill nye you're only concerned with philosophers LOL

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 14:58:47 2011 No.3948016 >>3947990 nigga, who?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 15:00:47 2011 No.3948021 >>3948013 By Jesus Christ, Buddha and Muhammad, are you stupid?

fizx !d75etXAowg Mon Oct 24 15:02:47 2011 No.3948028

What does /sci/ think of popularizers of science like Carl Sagan and Friends?

My Opinion:
Practical science is what puts bread on the table at the end of the day, but if scientists don't take the time to communicate what is going on in science then the public will become increasingly detached and skeptical of the realities of the world around us.

The ignorance of the majority has far reaching implications in a democratic society. If the public isn't informed of the fruits of science then the public won't give a second thought to cutting scientific research funding. Popularizers therefore play a big role in practical science.

Plus Carl Sagan published over 500 papers in his tragically short life and scientists who do outreach statistically publish more papers than those who don't (Source = NPR).

Anonymous Mon Oct 24 15:05:47 2011 No.3948046

>>3948028
>in his tragically short life

The dangers or pot. I will publish a paper about this some day.

Not like it matters. Thanks to the Cold War finally being over, nobody cares a damn about space, which means we can focus on things that are more pressing/important, like biochemistry and genetic research.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 15:07:47 2011 No.3948059 >>3948021 we're not talking about philosophers. we're talking about intellectuals. by alla accounts, dawkins is an intellectual. even though you're an edgy teenage hipster agnostic, you'll have to learn to deal with it

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 15:07:47 2011 No.3948061 File: 25 KB, 1000x750, 1316441129609.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3947658 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeqrN3Bfro8 >you will never get to meet carl sagan like this

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 15:14:47 2011 No.3948082 File: 810 KB, 1280x720, foreveralone.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3948061 >implying if he wasn't dead he wouldn't think I'm awesome This implication is... probably... correct. sigh

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 15:19:47 2011 No.3948105 >>3947678 If I am ignorant about a phenomenon, that is not a fact about the phenomenon; it just means I am not Eliezer Yudkowsky.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 15:22:47 2011 No.3948121 >>3948061 That brought a tear to my eye

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 15:23:47 2011 No.3948122 Ramanujan. Dude was a fucking boss.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 15:45:47 2011 No.3948231 Antonio Zaglul

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 18:11:20 2011 No.3948856 This thread doesn't have a sufficient amount of replies.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 23:31:47 2011 No.3950188 bamp

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 23:33:12 2011 No.3950194 File: 17 KB, 300x330, 1319513622286.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Alan Turing He was Fabulous He was Ambious He was Cute <3

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 23:35:47 2011 No.3950203 File: 17 KB, 300x330, Alan_Turing.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Alan Turing He was Fabulous He was Ambitious He was Cute <3

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 24 23:46:47 2011 No.3950242 Knuth.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 00:00:47 2011 No.3950296 File: 25 KB, 553x484, ancient-aliens-guy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This guy..

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 00:04:47 2011 No.3950314 Newton, Sagan, Feynman and Schrodinger.

>>	Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. Tue Oct 25 01:20:47 2011 No.3950531 File: 67 KB, 405x405, 1319304340452.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Fuck yeah Tyson

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 01:26:47 2011 No.3950550 Archimedes - invented calculus Ford - mass production Edison - master of inventions and inventor of the laboratory

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 01:33:47 2011 No.3950569 >>3950550 >edison >not tesla I bet you like steve jobs

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 01:34:47 2011 No.3950573 >>3950569 edison isn't even the inventor of intellectual theft.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 01:35:47 2011 No.3950578 Nietzsche and Stirner. One died from a hooker or a gay lover though. And the other from an insect bite. But live sucks anyway.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 01:36:47 2011 No.3950583 DAWKINS HARRIS HITCHENS DENNETT ATHEIST AKBAR! UMAD GODFAGS? YOU WANT TASTE OF ATHEIST COCK?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 01:40:47 2011 No.3950590 >>3947658 Not being american... i dont collect heroes... But i like richard dawkins quite allot.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 03:53:47 2011 No.3950867 File: 219 KB, 912x912, confirmed bros mosaic.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Ctrl+f >"da Vinci" >0 results /sci/, I am disappoint.

Anonymous Tue Oct 25 04:03:47 2011 No.3950887

I had a list somewhere, i wanted a massive collage on my room for inspiration/motivation.
There are so many from different periods and eras, so ill list ones i can remember from Britain.

Erasmus Darwin
Charles Darwin
Alfred Russel Wallace
Oscar Wilde
George Bernard Shaw
John Stuart Mill
Jeremy Bentham
Thomas Hobbes
David Hume
Robert Hooke
Isaac Newton
John Ray
Francis Bacon
Joseph Banks
James Hutton
William Smith
Alan Turing
Richard Owen
Julian Huxley
Aldous Huxley
George Orwell

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 04:06:47 2011 No.3950895 >>3947678 no joke, he actually is one of mine, but goddamn if a cult of personality hasn't developed around his site

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 04:18:47 2011 No.3950914 File: 676 KB, 800x800, 1319410016346.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3950887

Anonymous Tue Oct 25 04:30:47 2011 No.3950930

Socrates, who questioned everything and everyone

Galileo, who stuck to his guns

Newton, who invented modern physics and then walked away

Jefferson, who invented liberal constitutional government, and sealed the deal by dying on it's birthday

Ben Franklin, who was smarter than all the rest put together, but wise enough to stand back and let everybody stand or fall on its own

Lincoln, who knew a good general when he saw one

Oppenheimer, who had the grace to realize he had fucked up big time

Richard Hofstadter, who had the insight to recognize the paranoia in American politics

Douglas Hofstadter, who discovered the first fractal and wrote some of the most maddeningly abstruse but ultimately enlightening books on consciousness and AI ever

Neil deGrasse Tyson, who kicked Pluto's scrawny ass out of the Big 9

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 04:33:08 2011 No.3950934 >>3950867 >sam harris >mfw i'm all for being a devout atheist, but the new atheism movement is a pile of shit. however, with that being said, letter to a christian nation is one of my favorite books of all time.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 04:37:08 2011 No.3950945 File: 118 KB, 255x288, 1292639105129.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3950934 >mfw >no face STOP. THAT. SHIT!

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 04:49:08 2011 No.3950956 >That feel when edgy grimdark Sagan haters

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 05:08:47 2011 No.3950979 File: 161 KB, 512x641, BuckminsterFuller1[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Ctrl+F >Buckminster Fuller >Phrase not found Plebs.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 05:13:47 2011 No.3950987 Linus Pauling.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 05:13:47 2011 No.3950988 File: 449 KB, 2322x1213, 1305968938457.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3950930 >Oppenheimer, who had the grace to realize he had fucked up big time [citation needed]

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 05:21:47 2011 No.3950998 Albert Einstein. Haters gonna hate.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 05:29:08 2011 No.3951014 Linus Torvald, John McCarthy (died yesterday, RIP sweet prince), Dennis Ritchie, Donald Knuth, Alan Turing. Fight me, niggers

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 05:36:47 2011 No.3951025 OP's picture, Richard Feyman and Hawking. If Hawking can do what he does in his conditions, no one can say: "I can't do it, it's too hard"

Anonymous Tue Oct 25 05:52:47 2011 No.3951042

Bertrand Russell

This guy has brass balls. His works (especially his responses to other works) read like a British intellectual free-style rap battle - in his wake he leaves the broken syllogisms and hurt feelings of lesser beings. For example:

"I may say, to begin with, that I am totally unable to see any validity whatever in any of Mr. Strawson's arguments. Whether this is due to senility on my part or to some other cause, I must leave readers to judge."

"... he fastens on the word "present" and does not seem to be able to grasp that, if for the word "present I had substituted the words "in 1905", the whole of his argument would have collapsed."

"It is not only as to names and as to falsehood that Mr. Strawson shows his conviction that there is an unalterably right way of using words and that no change is to be tolerated however convenient it may be."

"Having confused the two problems, he asserts dogmatically that it is only the egocentric problem that needs to be solved, and he offers a solution of this problem which he seems to believe to be new, but which in fact was familiar before he wrote."

I would read more philosophy if it was more like this.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 05:53:47 2011 No.3951044 File: 361 KB, 1027x738, 1319534671121.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This guy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 05:57:47 2011 No.3951048 File: 441 KB, 220x132, 1319521763606.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3951044 WHAT THE FUCK! Those are uranium bullets on his crotch!

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 06:41:47 2011 No.3951098 >>3951048 Hahaha, 'damnit'. It's 'dammit', foolish picture.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 06:56:47 2011 No.3951114 File: 58 KB, 328x448, imgcarl sagan1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The best he was, the best he is, and the best he will ever be.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 07:13:47 2011 No.3951127 >>3951014 You seem like an angsty teen who's trying desperately to fight his secretly gay love for steve jobs...

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 09:34:47 2011 No.3951321 >>3951114 this

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 09:47:47 2011 No.3951338 >>3951127 Lol, he deleted his post...

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 25 09:51:47 2011 No.3951346 >>3951338 Looks like you hurt that brainless kid's feelings.

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