Best Division Inspireer

[JJG13]

Originally Posted by Peter Matteson

Upon finding new evidence I need to change my vote.

Einstein is the only one with an action figure.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/science/71a4/

I have one of those!

[Not2B]

DaVinci

Lots of reasons - many mentioned already. But also because you can talk about him while talking about Da Bears and Ditka.

OK... Ditka and Da' Vinci vs. Da' Bears - who'd win?

What game?

Does it matter? I'd say Ditka and dat guy you said is wit him.

But Da'Vinci didn't invent this SNL skit... does dat hurt Ditka?

[JJG13]

Newton.

He is famous for his laws of motion. Very important. After all, how would we determine the trajectory of a ball released from a spinning wheel without Newton? Also we can thank Newton for the wonderful world of calculus.

Newton is going to be like carazyyy

-Courty-

[Bill Moore]

Originally Posted by Bill_Hancoc

Who do you think out of the 6 (Newton, Curie, Archimedes, Galileo, Einstein, Da Vinchi) division "Founders" has inspired the most people or has made the most significant advancement in modern society. And why?

You're asking two different questions here, not one.

For Inspiring people: daVinci. He was like a science fiction mastermind, and it's probably his artistic side that allowed his logical side to come up with all those crazy ideas. Face it, science fiction writers stole his ideas for centuries, before they started becoming realities.

Your second question "most significant advancement in modern society" would be answered by someone not on the list, namely Joseph Lister.

Capitalizing on Pasteur's work, Lister developed the antiseptic method. Why is this a significant advancement in modern society? Because before this method, it was common practice for 50% of patients who underwent surgery to die due to infection afterwards. If the antiseptic method had never been developed, many of our forefathers would not have survived long enough to ensure our existence.