God, I literally cannot choose. That list is probably my perfect list of scientific figures in history. Aside from Edison, he can burn in hell.
The only ones I might add would be Goodenough and Gauss.
Let's hear it, little lemmings.
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Adalast@lemmy.world 1 day ago
smeenz@lemmy.nz 23 hours ago
Finally, someone with a good enough answer
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Davinci for sure because of the breadth of genius and imagination seems more approachable to a casual conversation, plus history has less on him.
Other’s have so much depth in their fields that I wouldn’t be able to converse intelligently on anything they are famous for. Having a chat with Feynman would be my second choice because his talks to laymen audiences are quite good.
A pint or five with either would be fun.
silasmariner@programming.dev 2 days ago
I don’t speak medieval Italian so sadly he’s off my list
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Presumably if we figured out how to bring back the dead and thoroughly decomposed, we could solve the language barrier.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Also he’s the oldest and not much of his ideas are retained.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Tesla. From what I have heard, he may have been a little eccentric ( paranoid even? ) so it’d be fun to see if I could get him to think I’m some sort of government agent looking to stop him from doing what he does.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Who’s gonna tell Tesla what his name stands for now?
Jela@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
Tesla would be my answer just to help him sue Musk for using his namesake. I’m petty like that though…
moseschrute@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Me: So why did you kill the elephant
Edison: AC bad
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 1 day ago
Bohr, for sure.
I’ve read Feynman’s biography, which, for the record, I would not recommend to everyone.
But he’s witnessed Einstein and all of these early physics luminaries, and by his memorable account, everybody was in awe of Bohr, and Bohr only.
So I’d like to hear what the ruckus was about.agavaa@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Why wouldn’t you recommend it to everyone?
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 2 days ago
I’d let DaVinci hit my vape
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 days ago
I’d share a blunt with Sagan.
bhamlin@lemmy.world 1 day ago
With how blitzed he always seemed, I don’t know that any mere mortal could handle what he was rolling…
garlicandonions@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Where’s Von Neumman?!
HereIAm@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
We need to get Euler in there as well!
richardmtanguay@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Tesla :-)
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I wanna talk to Isaac Newton about his wizard alchemy hobby
bazzett@lemmy.world 1 day ago
As a biologist, I’m offended that there isn’t Darwin, nor Mayr, nor Lesquereux, nor Jay Gould nor Margulis.
So I take Leonardo. I also like to draw and paint.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My first thought was Marie pre or post radiation?
Lol
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Tesla. Gotta know about the death ray.
yyprum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
And the pidgeon too!
SwimmingInTheeStars@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Tell me more about this pigeon.
kinther@lemmy.world 1 day ago
He also had an earthquake machine iirc
Nikls94@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Einstein – German and English
Hawking – English
Edison – English
Tesla – Serbocroatic
Curie – Polish
Newton – English
Feynman – English
da Vinci – Italian
Bohr – Danish
I‘d love to see the Tesla, Da Vinci and Einstein - all of them being incredibly smart but no one speaks the Same Language. Heck I think they’ll just switch to Latin to understand each other lol
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 day ago
Skłodowska-Curie also spoke Russian, French, English and likely German.
angrystego@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Did Tesla speak no second language?
Nikls94@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh my bad, he spoke 7 languages. Please add Czech, Hungarian, Latin, German, Italian, French and English.
God that man was smart
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Feel like I would just disappoint 3 different people. What a cruel thing to bring someone back from the dead for.
Jarix@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s why I went to have Feynman step in for me and I’ll just sit quietly in the corner listening
Zaptosis@monero.town 20 hours ago
Newton, because he was a revolutionary thinker for his time & it would be most fulfilling to just show him the wonders of the modern world & see the excitement in his eyes. Their all way to smart for me to gain any scientific knowledge of value that others hadn’t already, so might as well make Newtons day & show him some cool stuff.
Tinidril@midwest.social 18 hours ago
Newton had massive social adjustment issues and deep religious convictions. I’m not so sure he would react well to the modern world.
tiredofsametab@fedia.io 21 hours ago
I think Feynman would be interesting based on the videos of him I've seen. It probably also aligns best with where my knowledge is. Einstein is probably too theoretical and too much math I don't know (or have long forgotten in the decades since I learnt it).
I have zero Polish and my French is mostly forgotten so Curie is out, though she would be my second choice of those listed (I don't recall if she spoke English off-hand).
im_me_but_better@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
But we have so many “quotes” from Einstein. It would be fun to go one by one asking if he really said that.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Seems like it will be a one sided conversation. They’re all dead.
Gustephan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Curie three times. Her work was so groundbreaking that she got name recognition on the same level as the rest of them as a woman in the late 1800s. Based on my experiences with modern women in stem, I’d expect she worked way harder to get where she did than any of the rest of them and as such I’d expect her insight to hold a lot more value. I’d pick Pierre too if he was also on the list
glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Leonard Euler. He invented the basis for all of their works, besides Newton and Leonardo I guess.
4grams@awful.systems 1 day ago
Xcellent choice, would be amazing, a perfect pick. I’d toss Riemann or Ramanujan into the mix if I could pick anyone and ignore the language barrier.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
Didn’t Ramanujan write to a Cambridge professor? His English would be great. Colonial India—a lot of elites would’ve had knowledge of English.
fckreddit@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Leonhard Euler, without a doubt.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Ask him to help you move a sofa.
Eiri@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Curie looks tired. If I’m gonna embarrass myself with anyone anyway, I’ll invite her and we’ll have a relaxing cup of herb tea at least.
neuroneiro@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Everyone but that guy in the bottom right.
What a Bohr…
DrivebyHaiku@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Leonardo.
I have a long held theory based on the history of the Mona Lisa (Being recognized as a genderswapped self portrait he literally entitled “the Happy one” carried around by the artist and gifted to his gay lover after death) that the artist was trans.
I would absolutely love to potentially verify this because the idea that one of the most famous paintings in the world has been a trans gender affirming portrait in plain sight of art historians this whole time with nobody cluing in and writing a proper paper about it - is just kind of the best.
uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 1 day ago
Leonardo seems the most interesting of the bunch.
Artist, scientist, inventor, wizard appearance gay icon all in one package.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Literally a Renaissance man.
bbb@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Newton so we could talk about both being life-long virgins.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Feynman, he’s the one you can drink a beer with.
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Why does only “Leonardo” get the first name
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s the full name he had at birth.
He was an illegitimate child, his father, Ser Piero, acknowledged him later so he became Leonardo di ser Piero “da Vinci” meaning “from Vinci” came later.
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 1 day ago
I think Tesla. I want to ask him about a bunch of the rumors and conspiracy theories about him. I’m sure almost all of them are bogus, but I’d love to know.
My son picked Einstein. He’s curious what his last words were.
Alloi@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
hawking may try to finger you.
Tinidril@midwest.social 18 hours ago
I may let him.
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Feynman. Dude must have some crazy stories. Seriously, who cares about science?
mholiv@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Why? He was relatively contemporary and lived a pretty normal life relative to most of us compared to the historical figures.
That and he was a mega sexist who made the lives of women in science much worse for literal decades.
youtu.be/TwKpj2ISQAc
4grams@awful.systems 1 day ago
To be frank, if you put Angela on this list my answer would be her a thousand times over. Shes just so damn engaging, love her content.
outerspace@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Good video
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 2 days ago
Have you ever read his non science books like Surely You’re Joking Mr Feinman? They’re fun.
Cenotaph@mander.xyz 2 days ago
100%. Not only can he explain all this physics to an idiot like me, he’s got more stories than anybody there
4grams@awful.systems 1 day ago
Agreed, not the person I respect or believe is going to reveal the most truth. But he’s the best one on the list to keep you engaged and entertained for 3 hours.
beemikeoak@lemmynsfw.com 2 days ago
Feynman 100% as a man of the scientific community, I love having someone draw ridiculous diagrams to teach even crazier things.