ITT: scientists and great thinkers that inspired you the most

Pleb
Heideggers contributions to ontology have proved influential to the way I interpret science.
Both the CS's are very Veeky Forums and so is Noam Chomsky but I would be lying if I said I listed him for his contributions to linguistics and psychology.
Anyways Veeky Forums is complete shit now, not like it's much better here, eh whatever. Waste of time this reply

Really? Heidegger?

Not really, heidegger was the filler and I pretty much only listed him because I am currently reading about object-oriented ontology, and that's what I'm thinking about ATM, I'm not sure how I feel, I've only read this google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.faculty.virginia.edu/theorygroup/docs/harman=vicarious-causation.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwjMhv3G69zWAhUs5IMKHcxeDf4QFgglMAA&usg=AOvVaw24kzpVyPkZvefGSjiMKnpU
It seems intuitive but I don't know how I feel, I haven't actually read heidegger but I forgot the authors name(Graham Harman) and could only recall heidegger.
So I listed heidegger and now I have brought shame to myself because I was to lazy to look up Harman's name.
The rest are direct influences

ok ill make a serious response

>cantor
pursued a controversial idea despite being persecuted but was later vindicated by david hilbert and the whole (or most of, i guess) mathematical community. i find this inspiring
>hegel
i really like the idea of the hegelian dialectic
>kant
his interpretation of how the mind shapes experiences, and also his ideas about human autonomy
>feynman
his ability to communicate un-intuitive concepts to a layman
>nietzsche
for illustrating the dangers of atheism
>sun ra
his views about music relating to the human condition, in particular relating to race

Aristotle
Euler
Newton
Maxwell
Einstein
Jonas Salk
Aubrey de Grey

The number of scientists I have respect for goes well beyond that list, but those were just the ones who actually made me want to go out and learn stuff.

There were some philosophers that helped model my thinking when I was young; Kant, Nietzsche, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Locke come to mind. They didn't exactly inspire me, but they helped me make sense of what was important to me.

it's really amusing watching lower iqs pretend to enjoy watching rick and morty. if you're a high iq like me you can see it in their eyes they are struggling to enjoy it not even being aware the jokes that just fly over their heads. they'll laugh here and there to give the impression they get it but only by accident will they laugh after a joke. and you can tell it's fake. as if the fact that they laugh at the unfunny parts or over do it when i chuckle in my presence. when i laugh out loud (or lol as it's commonly referred to for those who don't know) they give me this dumb look like they're begging me to explain it to them. it's like they don't even understand that if i explain the joke it's not like they'd get it anyway.

you got baited twice gg

>Aubrey de Grey

ooh look at me my voice sounds like a chainsmoking 6 year old girl with sandpaper wedged in her throat and my beard looks like shit and I look like im 150 years old even though Im 38 and I suck at thinking.

>an argument against these 9 would be priceless

reading about history itself is more inspiring than any philosophical or scientific work

Historians are also thinkers.

I lol'd

Listen, all that aside, I can't help but be inspired by people who kinda wanna toss aside old notions of the achievable and strive for retardedly impossible bullshit. I mean, 100 years ago we didn't even have the internet, let alone a guatemalan sheepfucking imageboard available for us to discuss these ideas. Think of what waits around the corner for those willing to try.

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Yikes.

I want to stab Alan THE Bottom, in the bottom.

You don't really like the show do you?
This is a way of destroying it, just like the fedora meme from the past.

"Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks" is easily the most profound statement made in the English language in the past 1500 years.

youtube.com/watch?v=UQ-0Isyt-Wc

Newton

>hegel
i really like the idea of the hegelian dialectic
>nietzsche
for illustrating the dangers of atheism
cool so you didn't understand a word of nietzsche

many important intellectuals and philosophers/literaries throughout history were also historians to at least some extent
this is especially true in the times before the industrial revolution

Sam Harris is okay. He has some of the most faggy political views though

Aalewis

Weak b8

based

>rick sanchez and carl marx inspired me

Let me know if you don't recognize any.

He actually did. The selfish gene and the extended Phenotype are why I am majoring in Population Genetics.
>inb4 Religious person mad that he doesn't like religion

Fuck forgot B.O.B.

In school i translated parts of "de vita beata" and its content helped me trough my edgy teenage years. I wouldn't call myself a stoic now but it got me interested in philosophy and influenced my ethics.

did he not say that religion is the basis of western values?

Do you not feel any emotions like Da Vinci, Tesla, or Newton?

What's wrong with Judith Butler?

I was a wee lad when I read those 60s IM books. An Alpha Industrialist with a high IQ (but not "muh super-genius world-ending" IQ) who was fighting Commies and fucking Staceys? Sign me up!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes

LOL

>for illustrating the dangers of atheism
Found the retard.

my man

Friendly reminder that if you don't have the capacity to enjoy a genuinely good show without letting the fanbase ruin it for you, you're just as much of a brainlet as the average Rick and Morty fan that spends all day on Facebook making pickle Rick references and reading every post from I Fucking Love Science.

>Rick and Morty fan that spends all day on Facebook
Ah, proof by contradiction. Classic.

Q.E.D.

You mean proof by exhaustion.

But the show isn't funny...

That's why the fans sitting around all day trying to turn it into some bastion of hilarity are internet-wide cancer.

Yea, that doesn't really mean he was for it or against it. He diagnosed that the world was becoming rell religious and he feard that would bring a moral crisis, so he tried to create a system of morals that didn't depend on religion. So yea, it seems you only read the wikipedia entry.