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[MBTI General] Favourite Scientist and favourite Philosopher?

Cygnus

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I <3 Nikola Tesla. So neurotic, but so brilliant, fascinating, and enigmatic. He played a huge part in the development of technology in the twentieth century.

Also he was in love with a pigeon. So that's fun.

^This.

Also a personal fan of George Westinghouse, though he was an inventor and supporter of Tesla rather than a true scientist. I forget a lot of what he did, though.
 

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I have a little bit of NT blood in me, so I'll permit myself to post in this thread.

My favorite scientist is I-don't-care. Maybe Newton, because some of his ideas like that equal and opposite thing line up with my independently conceived intuitions. Einstein's theories have more interesting implications, but I find some of those implications so disturbing that I can't exactly call myself a fan.

My favorite philosopher is Jean-Paul Sartre for Being and Nothingness, Nausea, and No Exit. Ayn Rand is more charismatic to me, but I think she was a lousy philosopher.

I really don't even like philosophy anymore. I only ever liked it because it gave me creative ideas and occasionally allowed me to imagine I had come up with some important truth. Right now, it mostly just inspires me to come up with the most existentially twisted scenarios imaginable, the kinds of things that make The Trial by Franz Kafka look sane and cozy.
 

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I'm not sure who my favorite scientist is.. Maybe Carl Sagan or Francis Bacon.
 

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[MENTION=23832]Obsidius[/MENTION] I see you like Wittgenstein. What brings you to mention him in this thread? :)
 

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[MENTION=23832]Obsidius[/MENTION] I see you like Wittgenstein. What brings you to mention him in this thread? :)

Well, he was an amazing philosopher! Truly a genius, I love how he toys with language and logic :) I also love your sig btw, Heidegger is awesome :)
 

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I can't really give a favourite of either, but Dr Barry Marshall is a bawse scientist who deserves a mention in this thread.

He famously swallowed a Petri dish of Helicobacter pylori to give himself stomach ulcers to prove there was a causative link between the bacteria and stomach ulcers. He won a Nobel Prize for this 2005.

professor-barry-marshall.jpg

He's also Australian. Bawse.
 

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Einstein, Tesla, Salk, Hawking, Emmet Doc Brown, etc

Diogenes, Plato, Lao Tzu, Siddhartha Gautama, Miyagi, etc
 

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Well, my fav philosopher is Voltaire. What i like about him (besides his books and stuff) is that all portraits and even sculptures of him are smiling!
fav scientist: Nikola Tesla. The greatest inventor of all time with brilliant ideas. He should've gotten more credit.
 

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Inventor/Scientists: Edward Jenner, Guglielmo Marconi, Tesla, De Vinci, Werner Heisenberg

Philosopher’s: Thomas Hobbes, Francis Bacon, Immanuel Kant, Voltaire

& many more...
 

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Scientist: Tesla

Philosopher: me, i prefer my philosophy over others :shrug:
 

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Tesla (“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”) and Goethe (“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”).
 

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Never met him, but George Olah. The stories I heard is that he was a total trip, had the social skills of a dust bunny, but was rather friendly/likeable and benign with it. He also did some crazy (and awesome) science; king of the carbocation. Also including pioneering work on superacids.
 

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Not sure if you'd include him as a scientist or more of an engineer type, but I've always admired Leonardo DaVinci for being a kind of jack-of-all trades. I think I've been fascinated with him since I was five. The man kind of had his hands in everything.
 

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My favourite scientist is (cliche I know); Einstein

My favourite philosopher is a tie between; Nietzsche...
This confuses me. Einstein is one of the most firm determinists in the history, all his theories are based on causal determinism. In fact, he was passionate opposer of any idea that could even remotely hint randomness in nature, while Nietzsche's philosophy suggests randomness in the universe. I mean, their works are like water and oil, that is, fundamentally non-mixing.

I like all scientists and philosophers who accept determinism which unfortunately excludes brilliant people like Heisenberg and Hawking. I still value their contributions and imagination, just can't agree with some of their theoretical conclusions.
 

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I can probably get both with one stone by saying Bertrand Russell.
 

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I like philosophy and science, but I do not like studying it. So I do not have favorites. I am a filthy casual. I have stumbled across many quotes that I do like, but I am shit at remembering names.

Most of my philisophical or political conclusions I came up with on my own, with little outside influence.
 

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I'm going to be boring and choose Edison over Tesla.


And double boring by saying Plato and Lao Tzu are my favorite philosophers.
 

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Fav philosopher(s!): Arendt, Nietzsche and Kierkegaard (bless his heart)
 
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