Better Scientist: Isaac Newton or Charles Darwin?

F**k you, we can see allele frequencies change in like 2 generations in pressured populations. All these darwin skeptics are gonna get ass-raped in the next 5 years once everyone and their dog can do a whole genome for $3k in 7 days.

Old man runner wrote:

Newton we may not understand everything

Darwin too many gaps

Winner...Newton

Both very important.

Overall winner...the man who created beer.

Klassik wrote:

F**k you, we can see allele frequencies change in like 2 generations in pressured populations. All these darwin skeptics are gonna get ass-raped in the next 5 years once everyone and their dog can do a whole genome for $3k in 7 days.

Old man runner wrote:

Newton we may not understand everything

Darwin too many gaps

Winner...Newton

Both very important.

Overall winner...the man who created beer.

Angry much?

Newton by far. Although I admire Darwin too.

"Better Scientist: Isaac Newton or Charles Darwin?"

Oh please!

These two names do not even belong in the same sentence. Newton belongs with Einstein and myself. Darwin belongs among thousands of moderately bright individuals - in his case one who happened to be focused on the right things at the right time. But please do not ever again put his name in the same sentence with Newton's.

E = mc^2 + G =m1 m2/r^2 wrote:

Better Scientist: Isaac Newton or Charles Darwin?

Darwin would be top if one considered the somewhat sprawling discipline of Biology.

But in Physics, Newton is up there with Einstein and in Mathematics Newton is second only to Euler.

Lionheart. wrote:... in Mathematics Newton is second only to Euler.

I'm not sure any serious mathematician would put Euler in the same class as Newton. He was extremely prolific, yes, but his contributions did not have the same substance.

Bad Wigins wrote:

So neither of them was that great a scientist, they just happened to be in the right place at the right time to be called a great scientist.

Einstein wasn't a great scientist either. Niels Bohr was a pretty good scientist, for figuring out how chemicals are put together. Mendel was a good scientist for figuring out genetic inheritance. Marie Curie was a good scientist for inventing radioactivity. Mendel and Curie paved the way for most Marvel superheroes.

But they weren't great scientists. Rostislav Alexeyev, the inventor of the Ekranoplan, was a great scientist. Alfred Nobel the inventor of smokeless gunpowder was a great, and also evil, scientist.

You're an idiot.

And, for the record, Marie Curie didn't invent radioactivity.

Newton. Darwin's godless beliefs leads many Christians to falsehoods and homosexuality.

Frederick wrote:

Newton. Darwin's godless beliefs leads many Christians to falsehoods and homosexuality.

This ^

Plus you forgot about how he also led them to chocolate, the game of Risk and American Football!

According to a Wikipedia entry, Newton is considered the 2nd most infulential human ever and Darwin insn't in the top 10. In my opinion I think Newton and Darwin should be 1st and 2nd. In what order? I don't know but Newton and Darwin have done more for humanity than Muhammad, Jesus or the Buddha.

You motivated me to look up what Wikipedia had to say about Euler:

Leonhard Euler 15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist.

He made important discoveries in fields as diverse as infinitesimal calculus and graph theory.

He also introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, particularly for mathematical analysis, such as the notion of a mathematical function.[2]

He is also renowned for his work in mechanics, fluid dynamics, optics, and astronomy. Euler spent most of his adult life in St. Petersburg, Russia, and in Berlin, Prussia.

He is considered to be the pre-eminent mathematician of the 18th century, and one of the greatest mathematicians to have ever lived.

He is also one of the most prolific mathematicians ever; his collected works fill 60–80 quarto volumes.[3]

A statement attributed to Pierre-Simon Laplace expresses Euler's influence on mathematics: "Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all."[4]

I suppose if one considers pure mathematical genius, Carl Gauss would be top or near, but he was reluctant to publish and it seemed from his notebooks later that major discoveries by him were accredited to others.

Lionheart. wrote:He is considered to be ... one of the greatest mathematicians to have ever lived.

Exactly. ONE OF the greatest. Newton's name comes up often as a candidate for THE greatest. Almost certainly one of the top 2 or 3 in everyone's books. Euler was no slouch, no doubt one of the top 50-100 of all time, and perhaps THE most prolific. But still, not in the same class as Newton.

some random dude wrote:

Lionheart. wrote:He is considered to be ... one of the greatest mathematicians to have ever lived.

Exactly. ONE OF the greatest. Newton's name comes up often as a candidate for THE greatest. Almost certainly one of the top 2 or 3 in everyone's books. Euler was no slouch, no doubt one of the top 50-100 of all time, and perhaps THE most prolific. But still, not in the same class as Newton.

Between Newton, Euler and Gauss? I'll go with Newton.

E = mc^2 + G =m1 m2/r^2 wrote:

Between Newton, Euler and Gauss? I'll go with Newton.

Huh. In school (7th grade) we were told, in no uncertain terms, that Euler was the greatest mathematician who'd lived.

Although I'm a secret fan of Ramanujan...

E = mc^2 + G =m1 m2/r^2 wrote:

. In my opinion I think Newton and Darwin should be 1st and 2nd. In what order? I don't know but Newton and Darwin have done more for humanity than Muhammad, Jesus or the Buddha.

Yeah, but according to his Dad, Tiger Woods, when all is said and done," will do more than any other man in history to change the course of humanity "

So take THAT Newton, Darwin, Jesus, Buddha and the rest!!

(and really, isn't it true? Think of all hookers he's nailed. And that ball-hitting thing....pretty good at that too. What was Darwin's handicap? How much pu$$y did HE get?? Yeah, I thought so. Tiger Woods FTW)

An Engineer wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

So neither of them was that great a scientist, they just happened to be in the right place at the right time to be called a great scientist.

Einstein wasn't a great scientist either. Niels Bohr was a pretty good scientist, for figuring out how chemicals are put together. Mendel was a good scientist for figuring out genetic inheritance. Marie Curie was a good scientist for inventing radioactivity. Mendel and Curie paved the way for most Marvel superheroes.

But they weren't great scientists. Rostislav Alexeyev, the inventor of the Ekranoplan, was a great scientist. Alfred Nobel the inventor of smokeless gunpowder was a great, and also evil, scientist.

You're an idiot.

And, for the record, Marie Curie didn't invent radioactivity.

Um, excuse me good sir, but it's "YOUR an idiot", right?

(this is letsrun. When in Rome....)

Tyrannosaurus Rexing wrote:

An Engineer wrote:

You're an idiot.

And, for the record, Marie Curie didn't invent radioactivity.

Um, excuse me good sir, but it's "YOUR an idiot", right?

(this is letsrun. When in Rome....)

LOL!!! ^

some random dude wrote:

I'm not sure any serious mathematician would put Euler in the same class as Newton. He was extremely prolific, yes, but his contributions did not have the same substance.

Galois. Nothing more need be said.

An Engineer wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

So neither of them was that great a scientist, they just happened to be in the right place at the right time to be called a great scientist.

Einstein wasn't a great scientist either. Niels Bohr was a pretty good scientist, for figuring out how chemicals are put together. Mendel was a good scientist for figuring out genetic inheritance. Marie Curie was a good scientist for inventing radioactivity. Mendel and Curie paved the way for most Marvel superheroes.

But they weren't great scientists. Rostislav Alexeyev, the inventor of the Ekranoplan, was a great scientist. Alfred Nobel the inventor of smokeless gunpowder was a great, and also evil, scientist.

You're an idiot.

And, for the record, Marie Curie didn't invent radioactivity.

Oh yeah, then why is Curium named after her? Answer that if you're so smart.