I'm reading Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time. I always had the feeling that the mass media have risen him high above his real place, and this article
http://itsnobody.wordpress.com/2011/...ated-geniuses/
seems to agree with me. It seems to me that the those persons are justifiably included in the list, most of them, though according to my taste I would place Einstein as the most overrated, because by considering him as the most inteligent human being ever, the public unconsciously put him on top of Newton and Gauss, among others. Einstein had the good fortune to go to the US, which has the greatest propaganda machinery in the world and overnight he became a celebrity. Instead, the public has barely heard of Max Planck, the originator of quantum theory.
http://itsnobody.wordpress.com/2011/...ated-geniuses/
seems to agree with me. It seems to me that the those persons are justifiably included in the list, most of them, though according to my taste I would place Einstein as the most overrated, because by considering him as the most inteligent human being ever, the public unconsciously put him on top of Newton and Gauss, among others. Einstein had the good fortune to go to the US, which has the greatest propaganda machinery in the world and overnight he became a celebrity. Instead, the public has barely heard of Max Planck, the originator of quantum theory.
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