>>12051976I remember listening to a talk by Chomsky that Newton not only was a god of the sciences but also philosophy. Even Lev Landau one of the greatest physicists ever ranked the physicists by quality of contributions.
"The highest ranking, 0, was assigned to Isaac Newton. Albert Einstein was ranked 0.5. A rank of 1 was awarded to the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Satyen Bose, Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrödinger, and others. Landau ranked himself as a 2.5 but later promoted himself to a 2."
Literally the smartest human to ever exist.
