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while literally sitting on the toilet, the following names come to mind: physics: issac newton, gottfried Leibniz, george lemaitre, james maxwell, lord kelvin
by hprotagonist 8y ago
while literally sitting on the toilet, the following names come to mind:
physics: issac newton, gottfried Leibniz, george lemaitre, james maxwell, lord kelvin,j. j. thompson ...
biology: gregor mendel, pasteur, francis collins...
there are rather a few very big names who are Just Fine doing both.
- Mirioron 8y agoSure, but their understanding of the world was different. Everywhere around them religion was important. That's not the case anymore. Furthermore, they also knew a lot less about the world in general, because such information simply wasn't available back then.
- hprotagonist 8y agoi don’t think we’ve made any staggering advances in knowledge since 1960, when lemaitre died, for instance. it’s just a false dichotomy, sorry.
- ardy42 8y ago> i don’t think we’ve made any staggering advances in knowledge since 1960, when lemaitre died, for instance. We've got Twitter and Reddit, and if those don't encapsulate staggering advances in human knowledge, I don't know what would.
- DougN7 8y agoCan’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not...
- toufiqbarhamov 8y agoAs a counterpoint religious affiliation and attendance of religious services has fallen across the developed world space with education. I’m not sure that cherry picking a list of names can stand up to the overwhelming demographic shift we see today.
- lostmsu 8y agoI am not sure, but looks like lemaitre is couple of steps ahead of your argument: https://archive.org/stream/theoriesoftheuni033062mbp#page/n367/mode/2up https://archive.org/stream/theoriesoftheuni033062mbp#page/n3...