Praise Newton

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson at the University of Texas - Arlington on February 17, 2009. He took questions from the audience after his presentation. In this response he discusses Newton in comparison to Darwin.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Neil
• deGrasse
• Tyson
• Darwin
• Newton
• universe
• astrophysicist

[chardunk]

grrr... I know! the video was taken with my STILL camera, not a video camera. Ran out of space on the card! :-(

[seansurfgood]

grrr.. wheres the rest? i know hes about to say "...goes home and invents calculus.."

[ogirv101]

Einstein did alot more than that, but newton built the underlying foundation that required ingenous fundamental cocnepts that combined both mathematics and Physics. Newton invented gravity so Einstein can make the theory more precise and better, Newton also made the foundation for thousands of other discoveries. Newton is alot more influential than Einstein.

Though, Einstein comes in second place as the most influential scientist of all time.

[grande1899]

Is this the badass guy?

[Ilavenya]

Any 11 year old can formulate the theory of gravity and all those other things :P

[rawssremix]

@ogirv101 And to think Einstein might be wrong after all...

[FIGHTFANNERD3]

@SaganAppreciationSoc give the guy a break

[FIGHTFANNERD3]

@brandtaylor93 umm no he's not lol

[ShipMonster]

@seansurfgood "on a dare" i the end of that statement. It's sad that I've watched him enough to have heard this story many times.

[ashleylovesdaddy]

Bring a freaking VIDEO camera next time. Omigawsh!

[brandtaylor93]

Leonardo is the smartest man who ever lived, look at this guy's notes he had it all figured out.

plus he was a artist look at the beautiful paintings

look about how much of human anatomy he figured.

[CACBCCCU]

Take the inverse square flux rule that is embedded in Newtonian gravity and quantize it for extremely low gravitational quanta energy by multiplying it by a cosine with a galaxy-scaled wavelength, then look at Hoag's galaxy and the unpredicted proliferation of ring galaxies at higher redshifts, that's all I'm saying with this post.

[Truthiness231]

Alright, I'll give you that. Very well stated argument on behalf of Newton ^.^