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| Aristotle |
In my
biographical dictionary, 1000 great
scientists (1996) I proposed an objective quantification of the
importance of different scientists, using measures such as the number of lines
assigned to each in encyclopedias in different languages, to avoid bias in
favor of the fellow citizens. Subsequently, in an unpublished work (The Quantification of History and the Future of the West),
I applied the same procedure to various branches of human creativity: science,
philosophy, literature, fine arts, and music. In that study, six scientists
were tied with the highest score: one Greek (Aristotle) and five from the
West (Descartes, Newton, Darwin, Freud and Einstein). We can therefore say that
Aristotle was the greatest scientist of the Greco-Roman civilization.
