Which single person has contributed most to the human race?

[vikings_70]

Johannes Gutenberg

Father of the printing press.

[deerdiary]

Brb finding a tablet that reports about a single human inventing primitive language.

Logic mismatch pal. And it really doesnt matter. Whether it was a small conglomeration or organized by a single human in a region or tribe, nothing trumps this.

I dont get why people are so mad that Newton actually didn't provide the most important influences on humanity. He is very high up there. But it isnt like he is ur personal friend, where u should be offended. Learn from others, so u dont make the same mistakes over and over.

You obviously have no fuking idea what impact Netwon had.

It's tough arguing with a guy like yourself who obviously has no understanding of physics, engineering or anything in between, so you'll never know how much of an impact Newton really had on so, so much. I'm not going to sit here and type it up. Educate yourself and then apologize to Newton's ghost (srs). It's like trying to argue with a Russian guy who doesn't understand English: Just pointless and a waste of time.

Newton:

-discovers laws of optics after building the first reflecting telescope
-discovers laws of motion
-discovers universal law of gravitation
-invents infinitesimal Calculus after being tasked to find out why Earth's orbit is Elliptical (calculus which is used in finance, biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, economics, etc, etc, etc)
-developed Newton's law of cooling (which helps the agricultural industry)
-improved coins so they are harder to counterfeit (still used today...i.e. in the quarter coin)

Darwin:
-created Origins of Species which lead to the theory of natural selection and evolution.
-crickets
-crickets
-crickets

[DASCATMAN]

Imo, Einstein.

[Bruthar]

Definitely Thutmose III, pharaoh of Egypt. He conquered so much in his rule it's not even funny.

More serious though, I guess Walter White or Tyrion Lannister.

[18ToLife]

charlie sheen
2 chainz
and justin beiber aka miley cyrus

[woodbarry]

No Alexander the Great? No roman conquerors? These people are the ones who united huge parts of our world that allowed the trade and flow of goods that allowed for frivolous things like places of higher learning and thinking. They provided the foundation for entire cultures and civilizations.

[DASCATMAN]

Honourable mention goes to ZYZZ srs. What a ****ing sickkunt that guy was.

[ErGamboa]

Zayn Malik.

[ForestGrump]

This is a difficult question to answer, each great contribution has/had it's place.

That being said, I would say the single person who had contributed most to the human race has had to be the inventor of the wheel, imo it is an extraordinarily important invention which changed the way us humans think (out of the box, creativity wise).

[raytayse]

Still loling at the hipsters posting Tesla...

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first bb.com admin

[Tomato15]

Zyzz.

not srs

Probably newton, even though he used bullish tactics to push his own and steal others work (i.e. robert hooke) he was still a great mathematician and his breakthroughs formed the basis for everything we have today

[Rayzor84]

You obviously have no fuking idea what impact Netwon had.

It's tough arguing with a guy like yourself who obviously has no understanding of physics, engineering or anything in between, so you'll never know how much of an impact Newton really had on so, so much. I'm not going to sit here and type it up. Educate yourself and then apologize to Newton's ghost (srs). It's like trying to argue with a Russian guy who doesn't understand English: Just pointless and a waste of time.

Newton:

-discovers laws of optics after building the first reflecting telescope
-discovers laws of motion
-discovers universal law of gravitation
-invents infinitesimal Calculus after being tasked to find out why Earth's orbit is Elliptical (calculus which is used in finance, biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, economics, etc, etc, etc)
-developed Newton's law of cooling (which helps the agricultural industry)
-improved coins so they are harder to counterfeit (still used today...i.e. in the quarter coin)

Darwin:
-created Origins of Species which lead to the theory of natural selection and evolution.
-crickets
-crickets
-crickets

None of which could have occurred without written language. Eat a d!ck with ur Wikipedia cliffs.

[Actonspur]

This is a difficult question to answer, each great contribution has/had it's place.

That being said, I would say the single person who had contributed most to the human race has had to be the inventor of the wheel, imo it is an extraordinarily important invention which changed the way us humans think (out of the box, creativity wise).

Sorry but the wheel is not really an invention. Any naturally occuring sphere can perform the essential function of a wheel e.g. A rock rolling down a hill. All you are then doing is creating a slightly altered man made version of that idea.

[Actonspur]

No Alexander the Great? No roman conquerors? These people are the ones who united huge parts of our world that allowed the trade and flow of goods that allowed for frivolous things like places of higher learning and thinking. They provided the foundation for entire cultures and civilizations.

A good point, well made; red.

Would rep if not on r/c

[deerdiary]

None of which could have occurred without written language. Eat a d!ck with ur Wikipedia cliffs.

Then find me the guy who "invented" the first language...I'm waiting.

OP will shirley deliver.

P.S. those aren't Wikipedia cliffs. Those are just things I know off the top of my head. There's probably much more that Newton did that spans across many other fields.

[Manc33]

Sir Francis Bacon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon

The guy practically invented the current scientific method we now use. A method that to me hides more than it reveals by its very nature (ignore anything there's no physical proof of) but thats another thread.

He introduced something like 20,000 French words into the English language at a time when the entire English language consisted of hardly any words at all. We were literally still saying "ug" until he did that. Plus the fact that he was the first guy with a printing press! The first ever propagandist!

Then there's the theories that he was in fact William Shakespeare (who never existed). The theory is it was a team of writers, all working under Bacon. Let's face it, one man can't do all of that, but we were conned into thinking there are people that clever, just lol.

Thats why he ended up a "Sir". He successfully led people down the wrong path (with his scientific method) and for that, you get honors. Darwin is the same thing, he is even on banknotes lol... yes because he successfully lied to the world and basically helped to create the accepted ignorance we now have today that passes for normality (like, never question anything lol).

"He famously died by contracting pneumonia while studying the effects of freezing on the preservation of meat."

The guy was a straight up genius.

Thing is he can be credited with this and that but I am sure Eskimo's thousands of years ago knew meat stayed fresher when frozen. Come on. Its like Christopher Columbus supposedly "discovering" America, no he didn't! There were people living there when he went there so there goes that bullchit. How in the fuk can a guy be credited with discovering something that has already been discovered. The truth is they don't know who the hell the original discoverer was so let's just say its this guy.

[ForestGrump]

Sorry but the wheel is not really an invention. Any naturally occuring sphere can perform the essential function of a wheel e.g. A rock rolling down a hill. All you are then doing is creating a slightly altered man made version of that idea.

Invention synonym = creation.

Creation: the action or process of bringing something into existence.

Most if not all of man made creations are influenced by their surroundings, which is what makes such a "simple" invention so fascinating. The thinking process needed to take place for the wheel to be thought up is no different to the thinking process that was needed to invent the computer (an attempt to recreate a human brain).

[miscking111]

Jesus.

[CaseyJamess]

Socrates

[myrongunz]

al sharpton



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genghis khan tho srs

[Didlid]

Obviously some inventor who made lots of chit possible. OR if we're talking still alive today i'd go with bill gates

[ProtonFart]

Newton.

Aware me on how Tesla even compares to Newton. Genuine question? Id put Maxwell / Bohr / Heisenberg / Einstein above Tesla.

THANK YOU. Tesla made a bunch of fancy gadgets without telling anyone how to replicate it. These people singlehandedly opened the gate for new technology. And Newton was in a whole 'nother stratosphere that only Einstein came close to.

[ProtonFart]

Sir Francis Bacon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon

The guy practically invented the current scientific method we now use. A method that to me hides more than it reveals by its very nature (ignore anything there's no physical proof of) but thats another thread.

He introduced something like 20,000 French words into the English language at a time when the entire English language consisted of hardly any words at all. We were literally still saying "ug" until he did that. Plus the fact that he was the first guy with a printing press! The first ever propagandist!

Then there's the theories that he was in fact William Shakespeare (who never existed). The theory is it was a team of writers, all working under Bacon. Let's face it, one man can't do all of that, but we were conned into thinking there are people that clever, just lol.

Thats why he ended up a "Sir". He successfully led people down the wrong path (with his scientific method) and for that, you get honors. Darwin is the same thing, he is even on banknotes lol... yes because he successfully lied to the world and basically helped to create the accepted ignorance we now have today that passes for normality (like, never question anything lol).

"He famously died by contracting pneumonia while studying the effects of freezing on the preservation of meat."

The guy was a straight up genius.

Thing is he can be credited with this and that but I am sure Eskimo's thousands of years ago knew meat stayed fresher when frozen. Come on. Its like Christopher Columbus supposedly "discovering" America, no he didn't! There were people living there when he went there so there goes that bullchit. How in the fuk can a guy be credited with discovering something that has already been discovered. The truth is they don't know who the hell the original discoverer was so let's just say its this guy.

I don't think I've ever read a more contradictory series of paragraphs in my life.

[ProtonFart]

None of which could have occurred without written language. Eat a d!ck with ur Wikipedia cliffs.

And written language could never have occurred without the guy who discovered writing on rocks.

And writing on rocks could never have occurred without the first homosapian who pioneered use of thumbs.

And he never could have used thumbs unless the first homosapian decided to walk on two feet.

And he never could have been born unless the first fish decided to walk out of water.

ect. ect.


tl;dr Saying the creator of x is more contributive than the creator of y because y could never have existed without x is a fallacy.

[AWillis]

probably arnold or stallone imo.

[jande82]

probably arnold or stallone imo.

[Lb54TG]

Bill Gates

[RunAndPunch]

Sir Isaac Newton

Evariste Galois

NOT Albert Einstein he never should have been born

Gauss

Euler

Tesla

Christopher Nolan because The Dark Knight is the greatest movie ever made

whoever invented video games

[jj1421]

Jonas Salk
created the polio vaccine and didn't patent and gave it away for free (could have made something like $7billion)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk

imagine if the vaccine hadn't been created for another 20 or so years