Which scientist do you think made the biggest impact to the human race?

Answer 1

Einstein. I believe the effect of relativity on law, ethics, psychology and human relations will continue long into the future.

Answer 2

Sir Isaac Newton was a cornerstone.

The artist/inventor Leonardo (Da Vinci) made a big impact too, creating the ball bearing and myriad astounding machines ahead of his day's practicability. He showed power in both brain hemispheres, an artist as well as an insightful scientist, and he invented music boxes too. The fiction DaVinci Code only distracts from his true accomplishments.

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Answer 3

Rene Descartes(1596–1650)

he founded the theory of methodological skepticism which is how ur scientific experiments work now which composes of 4 steps (refer to source).
He also seeks absolute knowledge whereby the piece of knowledge is beyond doubt, meaning you question the piece of knowledge to the finest details and you can still answer the questions.
Also, he has the concept of dualism of mind and body. It spurred on the development of the medical field with this idea as he believes that the mind and body is separate. The idea od dualism is that the body is something mechanical, hence scientists can explore it theorectically since it is physical in contrast to the mind.

His concepts changed the european thinking from religious to more empirical which spurred the growth of explorations and science.

Answer 4

Would it not be all of them, with each of them contributed their small part of theories and inventions. I mean with out Newton Einstein would have not known his theory of relativity. By the same token, Edision wouldn't have been able to invent the light bulb without Franklin who first discovered electircity. So I would incline to stick to the idea that all the sicientist and inventors of past and present who really did make the impact on the human race.

Answer 5

Isaac Newton. Galileo runs a close second. These two scientists' work is the foundation of all modern science. After them, the idea that the world was understandable on scientific terms was generally accepted as valid.

Answer 6

since ur talking about the human race I think Darwin and Einstein made the biggest impact.

Answer 7

Alexander Gram Bell or Albert Einstein or Newton

Answer 8

Whichever being first looked at the world around him and wondered "Why?" or "How?" This individual probably lived in a cave, walked with a bit of a hump in his back yet, and had limited communication.

But this being set out to answer those questions, and from that point on in the development of Man we have continued to strive for the answers to the questions about our world.

Had nobody ever stopped to ask "How" or "Why", you would never have science.

Answer 9

Watson and Crick - for finding the helical structure of DNA. Their discovery made it possible to successfully carry out such an obscure thing like Human Genome Project.

Answer 10

according to me-wheel and transistor made the biggest impact to the human race