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Who is the greatest scientist ever in your opinion?
pic related. my pick.

>> No.4187323
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4187323

Carl Sagan was way geniouser than Newton

>> No.4187364

>define who
>define is
>define the
>define greatest
>define scientist
>define ever
>define in
>define your
>define opinion

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>> No.4187371

Richard feynman did for me in my senior year what bill nye did for me in elementary school, also carl sagan got me to blaze it so all 3

>> No.4187376

>>4187364
>define: define

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>>4187370

>> No.4187385

>>4187376
>define >

>> No.4187386

Eliezer Yudkowsky

>> No.4187395

Probably some dude from BC whose name is lost, but whose work has reverberated throughout the eons and made everything today possible.

Or Leibniz.

>> No.4187406

>>4187376
there is a philosopher who believed the answers to our questions were found by first defining the root of each word, then the context. And there enlies the answer. It was terribly complex. But that, my dear anon, is where the ">define" shit came from.

>> No.4187413

>>4187395
really. leibniz? why?

>> No.4187418

Paul fuckin Erdos mo fuckas

>> No.4187420

>>4187418
He's definitely up there as a mathematician, but this is about scientists I thought.

>> No.4187426

>>4187413
His exploits were legendary. Actually his wiki page is not uninformative.

>> No.4187432

>>4187420
is not math used in science? Imagine chemistry class in highschool...how much math did you do? How many formulas?

and I am aware. But he needed recognitian*

>> No.4187435

have you considered how many mathmatical theories you use and your idols use that they took for granted, but would be lost without?

>> No.4187436

>>4187432
I have nothing against Mathematics, hell that's my area of study, it's just that Mathematicians aren't scientists, they are important but Mathematics is not derived in the same manner as an empirical field.

>> No.4187438

>>4187420

but if I must Hélène Langevin Joliot, deserved and moment of thought.

>> No.4187441

>>4187436
nicely argued :) *bows to superior comment* and you are very right.

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>>4187316
Search your feelings /sci/, you know it to be true.

>> No.4187459

>Greatest as in 'most influence on science'
Newton
>Greatest as in 'most influence on society'
Bardeen

>> No.4187460

Theoretically, the greatest scientest ever is an alien species that exists millions of light years away, that will never see the likes of a species as scurvy as ours.

>> No.4187462

>>4187441

No worries.

I think Max Planck definitely deserves a mention because of his work in Quantum Mechanics.

>> No.4187466

shoutout to my nigga nIkola Tesla

>> No.4187467

>>4187462
gotta holla for the underdogs, they help make progress, and sometimes are the essence of progress itself.
anon making progress in thread :)
I like you, kind, and smart. Good combo.

>> No.4187476

The ho­mo habilis that discovered fire.

/thread

>> No.4187479

god. /thread

>> No.4187496

>posts on 4chan
>goes for a drive
>hits deer
>get back home after many hours
>continues to post
>win

>> No.4187507

ernest rutherford
neils bohr
leibniz count?
also if mathematicians do count,
master euler

>> No.4187519

Tesla.