Greatest Scientist Ever???

[rockytriton]

Alan Turing... If it wasn't for him, this site would be in german.

[arkain101]

Why does anything exist at all? Why.. why.. why..

There could just as well be absolutly nothing, not even empty space. But there isnt... for some reason there is everything, and not only that, us as individuals are a part of it.

Even if there was a god, or some kind of creator, why is it here, even that could be non existant.

My new vote goes to whoever gives the best answer to this. You might not think about it like I do, but it doesnt only puzzle me, it makes me dizzy and sick when I fully comprehend it, and it leads me to feeling that everything is inside this thing, and nothing is on the outside, because it consists of multiple dimensions and because of this fact on certian dimensions there is no distance, time, or anything. It might be wrong to say, there is actually nothing and that is why there is something .. lol.

Why do "YOU" become a certain baby that is born, and not a different one, YOU cant be any other person, yet you became one... even stranger.

[my brain hurts]

It seems that the author of this list felt a need to be "inclusive", since some of the names offered have no business being here. Still, there are some fairly worthy competitors to choose from.
Gauss may have been "the prince of mathematics", but he's no Euler. Pavlov? Who's kidding whom?

Since the thread calls for the greatest scientist, I'll have to cast my vote for the author of the greatest scientific paper ever presented: Philosophia Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

[karlpsol]

I will go for Alan Turing ! His work to break the Enigma code from tra nazis under the war was a turning point in the second world war. Also the fact that the idea of a "Turing Machine" has inspired many computer scientist over the years.