A book has been written, ranking the most influential 100 people in human history. Below are the top 30 most influential people. I have my doubts about the list. Einstein in the top 10? What did Einstein ever do? His so-called theory of so-called relativity makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, if you ask me. And why is Christopher Columbus at number 9? Because he "discovered" America hundreds of years after the Vikings, and thousands of years after the Native Americans? Big deal.
1. Muhammad
2. Isaac Newton
3. Jesus Christ
4. Buddha
5. Confucius
6. St. Paul
7. Ts'ai Lun (inventor of paper)
8. Johann Gutenberg (developed movable type)
9. Christopher Columbus
10. Albert Einstein
11. Louis Pasteur (invented pasteurization)
12. Galileo Galilei
13. Aristotle
14. Euclid
15. Moses
16. Charles Darwin
17. Emporer Qin (unified China)
18. Augustus Caesar
19. Nicolaus Copernicus
20. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (beheaded during the French revolution for being a chemist)
21. Constantine the Great
22. James Watt (developed steam engine)
23. Michael Faraday (discovery of magneto-electricity, boring git)
24. James Clerk Maxwell (discovered the electromagnetic spectrum – who cares?)
25. Martin Luther
26. George Washington
27. Karl Marx
28. The Wright Brothers (inventors of airplane)
29. Genghis Khan
30. Adam Smith
Before you can have a blog you need the internet.
ReplyDeleteBefore you can have the internet you need computers and electronics.
Before you has electronics you need and understanding of electro-magnetism.
So let us thank Mr Maxwell for this blog.