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Why does the author nominate Einstein instead of Newton as the greatest genius of all time?
Who is the greatest genius of all time? As a scientist,
I believe that we should first define what genius is to
answer that question. Traditionally, it is the ability to be
more creative and skilled than anyone else, or the first
to glimpse new shores of knowledge. The history of
science and technology is rich with great minds, but who
is the greatest? For me, it is close between Einstein and
Newton, but in Newton's time, there were not many
people doing science. However, at the start of the
20th century, when Einstein was working, there were lots
of other great scientists such as Paul Dirac, Wener
Heisenberg, Niels Bohr and several others. Even
amongst them, Einstein was considered special. Some
people may say this is a lazy choice, but I have thought
long about it, and I feel it is right. The three theories that
he published in four papers are some of the greatest
ideas ever to come out of the human mind – he proved
that atoms exist with his paper on Brownian motion,
discovered the fact that light is made up of packets of
energy, and the whole field of cosmology and most of
modern astronomy were born from Einstein's General
Theory of Relativity. He changed forever the way we
understand our Universe. Even now, when we talk about
the possibility of a big idea changing science, we say
"we need another Einstein"
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Newton failed to make a difference when compared to other scientists of his time no matter how significant his works and findings were. |
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Einstein earned a reputation as the most special one of the great geniuses of his time while Newton did not have many competitors. |
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Einstein had the privilege of collaborating with some of the most successful scientists of his period, including Dirac, Heisenberg and Bohr. |
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Einstein seems to have been more industrious with the theories he developed while Newton was not very inventive. |
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Einstein, with his papers, contributed a lot more to the way we see the Universe than Newton |