>>>> Pitty all the great scientists and mathematicians lived centuries
>>>> ago, eh?
>>>
>>> Yeah, because we had quantum physics down pat centuries ago.
>>
>> Sure, science is still happening today. But name just *one* scientist
>> who's alive today who has done anything so world-alteringly significant
>> that almost every man, women and child in the Western world knows their
>> name.
>>
>> Yeah, exactly.
> 
> How about Benoit Mandelbrot or Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins?

Hawking I'll give you. (I bet he's *really* fun conversation...)

Everybody recognises fractals when they see them; far fewer recognise 
the name of Mandelbrot (or Julia or Pickover or Lorenz or Barnsley or...)

Richard Dawkins? Seriously, other than writing a book, what has this guy 
ever done?

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