>>11943807>low hanging fruitthen why didn't anyone else solve it before them anon? Newton only chose to solve the easy problems? These men permanently altered our collective consciousness. Even if it's your view that "if not them then the next guy", there is still something to be said about being the right person at the right time, or else why even remember the name behind the idea?
>Literal middle school science memesFourier is the reason signal processing exists.
Pasteur is the reason you and your ancestors didn't die from some awful malady (and therefore the statistical reason you exists and in a spiritual sense your daddy anon).
Galileo is up with Newton in terms of foundational relevance, that doesn't get discredited because you were taught what he discovered in grade 11. Nobody cares about the millionth person to climb the mountain.
