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Shouldn't downvote this. Carl Sagan is nowhere as famous as the other three, probably except the US.
by gkya 9y ago
Shouldn't downvote this. Carl Sagan is nowhere as famous as the other three, probably except the US.
- pvaldes 9y agoSagan is a special case. Will be remembered (mainly) as a very good science communicator. Not so many people connect it with a famous and top-class scientist woman. The work of his first wife, Lynn Margulis, changed forever the concept of evolution. If we put Sagan with Darwin we should not forget to add Margulis to this list also.
- satori99 9y agoMy rule of thumb is whether or not you get your name attached to some physical phenomena. ie: Newtonian Physics, Hawking Radiation, etc.
- Aloha 9y agoThat's a fair yardstick
- pvaldes 9y ago> Not so many people connect it I wanted to say: connect him, obviously
- peatmoss 9y agoAside: My first encounter with Margulis’s Serial Endosymbiosis Theory blew my mind. I’d go so far as to say that SET changed my worldview. I’d always looked at evolution solely through the cold, brütal lens of selective pressure and competition. SET showed us, however, that symbiosis (i.e. fundamental cooperation) is right up there with competition... kind of a countervailing force within the story of evolution. I don’t know why, but I take great emotional comfort in that. Perhaps, being non-religious, it allows me to see something humane(?) encoded in the rulesets that govern change.