Who was more important: Newton or Einstein?
I’m reading a book about the English scientific advances of the 1600s and the author is making a strong case for Newton being as important as Einstein, maybe even more important.
The linked article below ranks Newton higher, but me doth detect homecooking?
At least in the US, I think Einstein is considered more important. But maybe that is because he lived in the United States and because I always associate Newton with the guy sitting under the tree with an apple knocking him on his noggin. Cute, but not revolutionary.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 17, 2025 5:29 AM
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Does it have to be a competition?
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 17, 2025 12:36 AM
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[quote] Does it have to be a competition?
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 17, 2025 12:38 AM
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R1, the Royal Society made it a competition.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 17, 2025 12:59 AM
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Well, if we are going to put everyone on a scale. I'm not sure about Newton or Einstein....but I would put you at about 1,400,500,403,381,282. Right above that cave man they found buried in the Swiss Alps.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 17, 2025 1:00 AM
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Isaac was on “The Golden Girls”!
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 17, 2025 1:02 AM
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That little fag Newton was always waving his gay ass at my boyfriend The Mighty Hercules.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 17, 2025 1:06 AM
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Would there have been Einstein without Newton?
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 17, 2025 1:12 AM
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Didn’t Newton invent calculus? That’s pretty revolutionary.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 17, 2025 1:20 AM
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[quote] Didn’t Newton invent calculus? That’s pretty revolutionary.
Didn't?
You could probably put that in your Google machine and find out.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 17, 2025 1:35 AM
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R13 - That's a rhetorical question, you fucking idiot. That's how people use rhetoric to make a point.
The level of stupid on DL has increased markedly.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 17, 2025 1:38 AM
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Girls, girls. You're both clever.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 17, 2025 2:08 AM
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Actually, there's controversy about the invention of calculus. Many people ascribe it to Leibniz, and feel that Newton's method was less rigorously worked out. But the consensus now is that both developed calculus more or less simultaneously along slightly different lines.
I would say that Newton's contributions are more practical in real-world terms and in the ways that the minds of us lesser mortals can fathom, and Einstein's contributions are beyond our easy comprehension, dealing as they do with space, time, energy, etc on a cosmic scale.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 17, 2025 3:58 AM
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A cookie is just a cookie. But Newtons are fruit and cake.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 17, 2025 5:29 AM
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