3 great people and why you think so

[beyelzu]

Nikolai Tesla, because he was a fucking visionary and invented the alternating current motor and radio. He introduced remote control vehicles. He could produce ball lightning. The man fundamentally changed the face of technology. I have no idea what his religious affiliation was, if any.

Bertrand Russell, for writing Why I am not a Christian, reading that helped make me feel ok being an atheist. This one is obviously personal.

Nick Cave, another personal one, his music gives me strength, makes me feel and think. I think his art is incredibly kickass. Nick is either an agnostic or deist based on his work.

[Dingfod]

Rent Snatchlow, for all the funny letters he wrote over the years to Car and Driver from Cadillac Ranch, Zimbabwe.

Zeppo Marx, the real talent in the Marx Brothers, for not stealing the limelight.

Shirley Jones, for being the multi-talented Shirley Jones she was, a hottie for a long time.

[Legs]

Julian Hill - inventor of nylons (http://www.mytights.com/mytights/advice/historyofstockings.html)

The Dude who invented the vibrator (http://www.temptationsparties.com/VibratorHistory.aspx)

Whoever came up with chocolate (http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blchocolate.htm)

[Zoot]

Noam Chomsky, for being as humble as he is a genius (lots, by the way), and maintaining his integrity throughout. Leonardo Da Vinci, because HOLY FUCK, he came up with some cool stuff, and it was recently discovered he invented a programmable car. And Nietzsche, because I feel sorry for him being such a visionary genius at a time when just no one was in the mood to realise it.

[Darren]

Noam Chomsky for the same reasons as Zoot gives above. Mohandas K. Gandhi for seriously applying non-violence and tolerance to modern politics and thus creating a space for these values in our world. J.R.R. Tolkien for opening a portal to another world and thereby opening a way for the imagination to wander freely there and back again in times of need.

Three is too few, I could list dozens more names, such as Karl Marx for analysing and expounding on the crucial nature of social class, John Maynard Keynes for creating (and implementing) a new economics based on the application of serious wealth redistribution for the benefit of society, George Orwell for exposing authoritarianism and totalitarianism and so on and so forth.....

[slimshady2357]

Leibniz, invented the Calculas, Binary Arithmetic, beautiful metaphysics based on the Monad and one of the last truly great polymaths.

Rudolph Carnap, one of the best philosophers of the 20th century, superb logician, Intodruction to the Philosophy of Science is a wonderful book that shows he 'gets it' and I like whenever he kicks Quine's ass.

Bohr, greatest scientist EVAH!

Adam

[Cool Hand]

Leibniz, invented the Calculas, Binary Arithmetic, beautiful metaphysics based on the Monad and one of the last truly great polymaths.


Huh uh. Newton invented caluculus too. Besides, damn Leibniz all to hell for the Monadology. Fucked with my head in college.

Moe, Curly, and Larry. You know why.

CH

[slimshady2357]

Huh uh. Newton invented caluculus too. Besides, damn Leibniz all to hell for the Monadology. Fucked with my head in college.

CH

Pffft! He stole it, Newton was a shady character with no morals. He was the Head of the Royal Society when Leibniz's early papers on the calculus 'mysteriously disappeared'. And if you know what Newton did to Robert Hooke, you should have no trouble realizing he stole the calculus from Leibniz. Every Leibniz fan....... errrrr I mean everyone knows this!

Adam

[Cool Hand]

Pffft! He stole it, Newton was a shady character with no morals. He was the Head of the Royal Society when Leibniz's early papers on the calculus 'mysteriously disappeared'. And if you know what Newton did to Robert Hooke, you should have no trouble realizing he stole the calculus from Leibniz. Every Leibniz fan....... errrrr I mean everyone knows this!

Adam

Heh. You can have my copy of The Principia when you pry it from my cold dead hands.

I'll gladly give you my copy of the Monadology. I should warn you that a few pages are missing from when I ran out of toilet paper.

CH

[TomJoe]

Louis Pasteur, for killing the theory of "complex life by spontaneous generation", and for his development of the modern vaccine and sterile technique.

Robert Koch, for developing his postulates. His invention of nutrient broth and agar were also huge developments for microbiology.

Alexander Fleming, for identifying the first antibiotic, penicillin ... though thanks to shit use of this important tool, his discovery is becoming more and more irrelevant.

[viscousmemories]

Alexander Fleming, for identifying the first antibiotic, penicillin ... though thanks to shit use of this important tool, his discovery is becoming more and more irrelevant.
Sounds interesting. You should start a thread. :wink: