IUBio

Time Magazine: Man of the Millennium

Matthias Warkus mawarkus at t-online.de
Sun Sep 27 07:41:25 EST 1998


Alberto Moreira schrieb:
> 
> Also sprach larryc at teleport.com (Larry Caldwell) :
> 
> >In article <6u6qrt$gsp$1 at news.indy.net>, d9090 at indy.net says...
> >
> >> Issac Newton.   (that from a Shakespeare and huge Beethovan fan.)
> >
> >No question.
> >
> >For first runner up, I would pick James Clerk Maxwell.
> 
> There has been no event that was more influential to so many people as
> the American Revolution.
Allow me to differ...
Solon, Cleisthenes, Pericles anyone?
Roman Empire?
*Fall* of the Roman Empire?
30 Years War?
French Revolution?
Napoleon?
WW1? WW2?
Decolonisation (was influential to billions of people)?

You can't make that kind of broad statement,  "no event was more influential to
so many people".

> So, pick any of them: Jay, Madison, Hamilton,
> Jefferson, one of the Adamses; or pick them all together: the men of
> the millenium. And if you're worried about sexism, you can add Abigail
> Adams to the group.
> 
> That's the way I see it; I don't think any event in science can match
> the depth and reach of the American Revolution.

Hmm... correct me if I'm wrong but the American Revolution relied on firearms,
didn't it?
Perhaps the invention of a) metal works, b) gunpowder, c) pre-industrial
manufacturing etc. were needed to make it possible, hm?

mawa
-- 
mailto:mawa at iname.com | ACME Frob Coil Oil ... makes bits go faster!
My site was cracked by some obscene idiots this summer. It will go up
on another server soon. 'mawaspace' on Angelfire is not mine anymore.
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.12
GAT/U d-(--) s:- a--- C++(++++)>$ P+(--) L++>++++>$ E++>+++ W++(-) N++
o? K w---(+) >M+ V-- PS+(++) PE(-)(--) Y+>++ >PGP++ t+(---)@ 5>+ X-@
>R+++@ tv(+) b+++(++++)>$ >DI+ D(--)(---) G++ e@(*)>++++ h! !y+
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------



More information about the Neur-sci mailing list

Send comments to us at biosci-help [At] net.bio.net