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Topic Started: Aug 19 2008, 04:21 PM (1,125 Views)
Ànraich
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Who's your favorite scientist (alive or dead) and why?

Mine would have to be Nikola Tesla. He invented; AC current, radio (stolen by someone then later by Marconi), early robotics, x-rays, ozone generator (not sure what good it does), the lightbulb (stolen by Edison), an earthquake machine, mechanical oscillators, the teleforce, simple nuclear submarine, turbines, VTOL aircraft, a death ray, solar panels, and a system that delivered electricity without wires.
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Tesla and science had a baby and named it the modern world.
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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Charles Darwin, of course. Although his ideas weren't all original, he revolutionized the way in which scientists, and the entire modern world, viewed biology. As a striving biologist, he has a strong influence on me.
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Aristotle. He was 2,000 years ahead of his time when he came up with a theory about an octopi's tentacle. There are also others I can name but they are all ancient scientist or scholars. I don't know about modern scientist.
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I like many scientists. Some of my favourite are Charles Darwin and Gerald Durrel
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Darwin and Tesla are cool. Hmmm, I need to think of more...
Jane Goodal would be a good example of a primatologist.
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Richard Dawkins is nice.

And Carl Sagan.
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I guess the three Leakey's Angels are up there for me. They contributed greatly to studying are closest relatives, and promoted their conservation. Also Louis Leakey himself and his work for paleoanthrology, and most of the Leakey family as well who many were scientist.
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"I was born in the dark. I went out into the light, and your Majesty, it is my displeasure to inform you that I have returned to the dark. I envision a Seoul of towering buildings filled with Western establishments that will place herself back above the Japanese barbarians. Great things lie ahead for the Kingdom, great things. We must take action, your Majesty, without hesitation, to further modernize this still ancient kingdom."-Min Young-ik to Empress Myeongseong
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Kent Hovinid...wait no the other one Charles Darwin.

I also like Norman Borlaug. While what he has done probably is not amazing as we work of Darwin or Newton, but it is esitmated he saved 1 billion lives with his work.
Albert Sabin is also another hero, at the hight of the cold war he started to vaccinate against polio in the soviet union.
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My favorite scientists are Charles Darwin and Stephen Hawking. Charles Darwin because he discovered evolution, and Stephen Hawking because despite his disability, he still succeeded, and I also like that cool robotic voice of his. He also does a great job in lecturing about the origins of the Univserse.
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Um, evolution wasn't invented. But we get your poing.
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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Um, evolution wasn't invented. But we get your poing.
I meant discovered. Fixed.
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I like several, but my all-time favorite that deals with animal science is Dian Fossey. I even devoted a page to her on my site that explains fully why I look up to her so much.
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Gotta go with Aristotle. <3
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Desmond Morris.
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Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth.

Albert Einstein. Even though he was a Christian, he still made great strides in physics and the origin of the universe. And he made these stride despite the fact that his theories disproved creationism.
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