>>11573165English are pretty much retarded and have never produced a single philosopher or artist or conqueror of worth. They got Newton, I guess, but Leibniz was much more intelligent, at least making an attempt at a theory of everything with his monads.
For Germany, you could probably say Einstein (physics), Nietzsche (philosophy), Goethe (art), and Hitler (religious icon / conqueror), which isn't a bad list. I would still say the Jews have the Germans beat. The Germans certainly have the Jews beat in the realm of art, though, where they dominate musically (Mozart, Bach, Beethoven). They also dominate intellectually (Lichtenberg, Leibniz, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer) but so do Jews with Spinoza and Kant (yes, he was Jewish). The former dominated Germany philosophically (Spinoza influenced Goethe, who influenced Schopenhauer, who influenced Nietzsche), and so did the latter (influenced Lichtenberg and Schopenhauer). You could make the agument that Leibniz > Spinoza, but Leibniz was absolutely mystified by the continuum question, which you can see in both his philosophy and his mathematics.
The French could also be brought up, though they lack scientifically since they have always been a more social country and so aren't capable of the rigor necessary for that type of work. Rochefoucault (psychology), Montaigne and Baudrillard (philosophy), Offenbach (art), and Napoleon (religious icon / conqueror). Not a bad list. Nowhere near the Germans or Jews, though.
