WHO IS THE GREATEST BIOLOGIST OF ALL TIME?: A Talk With Armand Leroi. [ARMAND LEROI:] So who is the greatest biologist of all time? Good question. For most people it's got to be Darwin. I mean, Darwin is top dog, numero uno. He told us about evolution, he convinced us that evolution happened, and he gave us an explanation for it. Okay, but who is the real top dog? Aristotle was a student of Plato's. In any event, he's 37, he's left Athens. He's got his young wife, he's thinking about biology, and he goes down to the shore, and he picks up some snails, and he picks up some fish from the local fish market, and he begins to dissect them, and he writes the results down.
We don't know the order in which he wrote his books. We've lost his book of dissections, but he refers to the dissections in there, and it's all astonishingly modern. Then he writes a book about the parts of animals, which is his functional anatomy. Every generation has to reinterpret Aristotle, because the thing about him is he's so vast. So what do I find when I look at Aristotle? The birth of a new island caught on film. Evolution. The memetic approach.
News - Technology & Science - Belief in God a 'product of human weaknesses': Einstein letter. Renowned scientist Albert Einstein dismissed the Bible as a collection of "pretty childish" legends and belief in God as a "product of human weaknesses," according to a letter to be auctioned this week. Einstein, who was Jewish, also rejects the notion that Jews were God’s chosen people. The letter was written in German in 1954 to philosopher Eric Gutkind. It is to be auctioned in London, England, on Thursday by Bloomsbury Auctions, and is expected to fetch between $12,000 and $16,000 US. Einstein writes "the word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.
" Born to a Jewish family in Germany in 1879, he also adds that "for me, the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. " Others have said that the quote does not advocate a belief in God and have referred to other letters written by Einstein. Kerr black hole.
A type of black hole that possesses only mass and angular momentum (but not electrical charge – the third possible property of a black hole). In other words, a Kerr black hole is an uncharged black hole that rotates about a central axis. It is named after the New Zealand mathematician Roy Kerr who, in 1963, became the first person to solve the field equations of Einstein's general theory of relativity for a situation of this kind. Kerr black holes are probably the commonest in nature, since the massive stars from which they typically form possess rotation (but no overall charge) before they collapse at the end of their lives.
By the principle of conservation of angular momentum, much of this spin is then retained by the black hole following the star's terminal collpase. A Kerr black hole has the following distinct regions: Inside a Kerr black hole At each event horizon the roles of space and time are reversed; so, in the case of a Kerr black hole space and time swap places twice. History. Biology Content References. Physics. Dawkins. Biofeedback.