Best scientist ever! Vote!

My vote is for Darwin.  

All of the other nominees are excellent though.

I expect this to be a very tight vote, perhaps Galileo will sag behind, but the other four should be very tight.

We shall see.

 Edit: Contemplating removing Galileo and putting in Hawking

It's Isaac Newton or Einstein.

 Edit: Contemplating removing Galileo and putting in Hawking

Mithrandir50

My vote is for Darwin.  

All of the other nominees are excellent though.

I expect this to be a very tight vote, perhaps Galileo will sag behind, but the other four should be very tight.

We shall see.

 Edit: Contemplating removing Galileo and putting in Hawking

Mithrandir50

Bill Nye

I vote for myself.

Bill Nye

konvikt_17

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My vote is for Darwin.  

All of the other nominees are excellent though.

I expect this to be a very tight vote, perhaps Galileo will sag behind, but the other four should be very tight.

We shall see.

 Edit: Contemplating removing Galileo and putting in Hawking

heeweesRus

you seem to have a weird fetish with Mithrandir50

Leonardo was an inventor, not a scientist. His name doesn't fit in that list.

Lagrangia and Einstein tie for me.

darwin has been the most influential IMO.

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My vote is for Darwin.  

All of the other nominees are excellent though.

I expect this to be a very tight vote, perhaps Galileo will sag behind, but the other four should be very tight.

We shall see.

 Edit: Contemplating removing Galileo and putting in Hawking

konvikt_17

you seem to have a weird fetish with Mithrandir50

Doctor Farnsworth obviously.  Guy churned out Doomsday devices like it was nothing. 

Darwin because evolution was revolutionary.  Some of those others were just as revolutionary, but Darwin gets the edge because of how butthurt he makes religious folks.

Doctor Farnsworth obviously.  Guy churned out Doomsday devices like it was nothing. 

HoolaHoopMan

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[QUOTE="heeweesRus"] It's Isaac Von Bandodger

brucewayne69

you seem to have a weird fetish with Mithrandir50

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you seem to have a weird fetish with Mithrandir50

heeweesRus

Tesla seems like the most "ahead of his time". Fightingfan

Isaac Newton 

Isaac Newton created calculus just to win an argument

You dont get more badass than that. 

"lemme just invent an entire field of mathematics to prove my point..."

Newton.  It's honestly not even close.

Einstein.

No one in the medical field? Fail...LJS9502_basic

[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]No one in the medical field? Fail...brucewayne69

Isaac Newton created calculus just to win an argument

You dont get more badass than that. 

"lemme just invent an entire field of mathematics to prove my point..."

Blue-Sky

[QUOTE="brucewayne69"][QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]No one in the medical field? Fail...LJS9502_basic

Einstein

It's Isaac Newton or Einstein.

Aljosa23

Newton.

Newton.

The big take away whenever this is discussed though is that men are superior than women in not only strength,but also in mind.

It's Isaac Newton or Einstein.

Aljosa23

Newton came up with calculus.  Without calculus, we wouldn't get a real understanding of force and the most fundamental material of physics could not happen and without that, would we have the technology we have today?  Newton is definitely the most important (if not the greatest) scientist to ever live.  Tesla would have been a close second.  He was truly ahead of his time.  If the Wardencliffe Tower had worked out, the world would be far more advanced.

Out of the one's on the list I'de probably go with Newton.

I wonder though, should Galileo be replaced with Copernicus? Copernicus came up with the idea of heliocentrism before Galileo, though maybe Galileo came up with better evidence. Galileo believed that Copernicus' theory was correct, If I recall, and I think Galileo was a century or so later than Copernicus.

Some other candidates I'de consider would be:

Carolus Linnaeus (aka Carolus a Linne, aka Karl von Linne) - binomial nomenclature.

Gregor Mendel- Mendelian genetics

Mons. Georges Lemaitre - Big Bang Theory

and as others have mentioned Nikola Tesla (I don't know much about him, but I think he had something to do with an electric generator or battery).

This guy of course

I vote Einstein.  He's the current champ and years after his death with all the tech we have we still haven't had anyone rock the world of science like he has.  

J. Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi deserve a mention too. Whether or not it's a good thing they're the "Fathers" of the Atomic bomb.