The death of Norman Borlaug and the dearth of coverage of that fact made think of this,
What people have really been the most important people in history for the bettterenet of the human race.
I'll start with these four
Jenner
Francis Bacon
Borlaug
Newton
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09-13-2009, 08:43 PM #1Elder Member
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Most importat people in human history
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Steve Jobs
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09-13-2009, 08:58 PM #3The Wright Stuff!
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Johannes Guttenberg. Without the likes of which word printed en masse would not be possible.
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Ts'ai Lun the inventor of paper.
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Oh, I think someone would have gotten around to it, but since he's the one who did it, he deserves all the credit for basically re-inventing Western culture and bringing an end to the medieval period.
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He was about 700 years to late to get that credit, they were masd producing books and porno hundreds of years before he was born. Originally Posted by Deadpooligan
He did bring the idea into use in backwards places like europe though
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I'll go with Samuel Morse, Thomas Edison, Archimedes, and Hippocrates.
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Avicenna and Vesalius did more for modern medicine than Hippocrates. Hell, Hippocrates believed in humors.
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Anybody notice that all the answers are western?
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09-13-2009, 10:25 PM #10That one guy.
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Being raised in a western culture and taught in schools that emphasize western philosophy and history might have something to do with it. Originally Posted by mikekerr3
Isaac Newton was the first person to come to mind; I'm too tired to think of three others."Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences." - Robert Louis Stevenson
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09-14-2009, 03:24 PM #11NOT Bucky O'Hare!
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The man who pasterised MILK!
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Give me a few years, then the answer will be me.
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I thought your work on the dark knight will astound humanity for years to come myself. Originally Posted by Chris Nowlin
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