re: Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein?

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Can't say the same for Newton and the 18th Century.

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Because there was no mass media to make him a star? While Einstein was the most significant scientific mind since Newton, Newton was responsible for a branch of physics "for the real world" AND calculus. Plus he did things with optics and light.

Einstein was practically worthless in math. Although his work was both important at the atomic/quantum level, as well as astrophysics - much of his importance is based on his research filling in the gaps that Newtonian physics didn't account for. That's clean-up work, relatively speaking.