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Greatest People of All Time
Who were the greatest people of all time and why? "Greatest" could mean a lot of different things. I'm leaving it purposely vague so it is up to your own interpretation. Also, when I ask "why" I'm not talking so much about what they accomplished. I'm talking more about what character traits, skills, etc. made them great.
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Re: Greatest People of All Time
pauli and heisenberg have to be up there imo
edit: a cursory and informal list in no order whatsoever nietzsche kafka borges heisenberg pauli einstein shakespeare goethe beethoven mahler schoenberg newton bohr singer (the painter) monet munch cummings joyce zoschenko dostoyevsky oppenheimer plath miles davis martin luther king jr and a bunch of science/medicine people i can't remember |
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I was thinking about this the other day. I think Einstein in 1905 had the single greatest year in human history hands down. I have no idea what/who/when number 2 is.
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einstein doing the relativity theory entirely by himself is pretty impressive. i think it certainly stands good competition against any other year in any other individuals life.
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I don't think any artist can really compare to a great scientist in this debate. I feel like if you remove a single artist or writer it would suck to not have their work but things would be pretty much the same. Of course if Einstein never existed we would have found everything he discovered but it is hard to tell how long it would have taken. For an artist to have that kind of impace it would have to be something like lving in a world where Go Dog Go is considered a great piece of literature and Shakesphere comes along and gives us Hamlet. I don't think anything like that has evern happened.
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I don't think any artist can really compare to a great scientist in this debate. I feel like if you remove a single artist or writer it would suck to not have their work but things would be pretty much the same. Of course if Einstein never existed we would have found everything he discovered but it is hard to tell how long it would have taken. For an artist to have that kind of impace it would have to be something like lving in a world where Go Dog Go is considered a great piece of literature and Shakesphere comes along and gives us Hamlet. I don't think anything like that has evern happened. [/ QUOTE ] I think thats a pretty decent argument. I'm not some philistine who thinks art is useless or that "my 5 year old nephew could do that" but I think that you can legitimately say that if Van Gogh never lived we'd never notice the difference, and the NEXT best painter ever would give everyone just as much pleasure. Art seems to me to be more of a relative accomplishment. Maybe I'm way off, I admittedly know very little about art. Wheras someone who invented some useful technology has an objective and calculable impact on the world that is irreplacable. Sure someone would have eventually made the same discovery (probably) but that would have taken X years and resulted in Y millions of people suffering. |
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I was thinking about this the other day. I think Einstein in 1905 had the single greatest year in human history hands down. I have no idea what/who/when number 2 is. [/ QUOTE ] Gandhi had a fantastic season once. Helped drive out a superpower and led the league in home runs. |
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pauli and heisenberg have to be up there imo edit: a cursory and informal list in no order whatsoever nietzsche kafka borges heisenberg pauli einstein shakespeare goethe beethoven mahler schoenberg newton bohr singer (the painter) monet munch cummings joyce zoschenko dostoyevsky oppenheimer plath miles davis martin luther king jr and a bunch of science/medicine people i can't remember [/ QUOTE ] Galen and Ostler for medicine. |
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fermi was good, plato sort of... relucantly has to be on there, probably kant too, and that guy with the peas in the monastary...
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fermi was good, plato sort of... relucantly has to be on there, probably kant too, and that guy with the peas in the monastary... [/ QUOTE ] Mendel. |
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