What do you think of some tiger pounce netizens who think that Newton is far greater than Confucius?

Because they have all learned Chinese, but they have not learned Chinese, they feel worthless.

Because they didn't study science, they didn't even read a brief history of science, so they felt mysterious and thought those people were awesome.

I only had until junior high school, and I always thought that Newton was awesome, and Newton was the first in the universe. Later, it was discovered that many of the laws had already been discovered, and some of the proofs were made by others and sent to Newton. Newton was never a follower of truth, so he was able to believe in theology later in life.

There is a very popular saying in the scientific community, standing on the shoulders of giants, everyone is the same, there are countless people's efforts and pursuits, and finally those celebrities are on the doorstep and break through the barriers. Naturally, we cannot ignore the tremendous contributions made by these people, but there are often many people who think that these scientific contributions are made out of nothing. For example, Einstein's theory of relativity, such as gravitation (if you really think that it is just an apple smashed down and Newton had an epiphany, I can't help it) There are many scientific experiments in Europe, two iron balls hit the ground at the same time, and hemisphere experiments ......In fact, many scientific achievements have long been circulated among the people.

This is not a matter of praise and disparagement, and the same is true of Confucius's thoughts, and he is also not made out of nothing. The main ** is the Zhou ceremony, and then the ancient books. Later, I traveled, saw, heard, and felt, so the further I went, the more meaningful it became.

If you are in Europe, and you ask whether Newton is great or Socrates is great, you can't say Newton in one fell swoop. Because people know Newton, they also know Socrates. If you leave Britain aside and ask whether Aristotle was great or Newton was great, the result will undoubtedly slap countless netizens in the face.

Newton's greatness lies in the British empire on which the sun never sets, Newton is undoubtedly the greatest man in British history, and the export of culture has also caused Newton's influence to overshadow all other scientists of his time. But looking at the world, even if it is only his contemporaries, he really doesn't dare to be the first.

First, their knowledge is insufficient, and they basically only have the level of knowledge in nine years of compulsory education, and even those who have received a high school education are rare. Not to mention higher education above the university level. Newton was the greatest in their academic perception.

Second, their servility is deeply rooted, and modern China is indeed too backward to retain the mentality of Western supremacy in their hearts.

Britain voted for the great man of the millennium in the West, and Marx was undisputed first, followed by Einstein, and third, when it was Newton's turn. And Confucius preceded them by thousands of years. In the ranking of the greatest people of antiquity in the West, Confucius, as an Oriental, can be ranked second only to Jesus, and anyone who has a little wisdom knows what Jesus means to the West (God).

In other words, in the eyes of the West, Confucius is the greatest man under God. In a longitudinal comparison between ancient and modern, Confucius is also a philosopher at the same level as Marx. Was Newton far greater than Marx?

There is no comparison.

1. Before Newton, no one could clearly say what truth was, let alone the substantive importance of truth!

2. Before Newton, although the West also gave birth to scientific enlightenment ideas, it was not much ahead of the four major civilizations, especially the Chinese civilization!

The birth of Newton has made countless people on the earth understand the importance of science in history, and thus firmly focused on science and technology!

3. Many people use the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, etc. to divide the history of human progress, but in fact, before Newton and after Newton should be two completely different civilizations! Even races!

4. In physics alone, Newton has killed all physicists in seconds. Even Albert Einstein is only above Maxwell in my heart, and it was on the latter's shoulders that he solved the problems that remained, and Newton was the foundation and even the direct culmination of everything in physics!

5. The problems that Newton solved back then, not to mention the well-known ones, those little-known cases, even at the moment, are extremely classic!

6. Needless to say, this is actually needless to say, but for some people with low IQ, they may not understand that all philosophers are vulnerable in front of Newton! Ref 1 vs. 2! Philosophy itself is a secondary discipline that does not enter the stream, and then it has been fundamentally shaped because of 1 and 2, otherwise, philosophy, let alone a secondary discipline, is not even a discipline!

In the heavens of all worlds, there can be countless Newtons (even Maton, Yangton, and Merton), Mencius, and Xunzi, but there can only be one Holy Prophet, Confucius. Whether it is the human race, Yidi, Kunlun slave, as long as it is at the right time, at the right time, or one person, or several people, Newton's principles will be present, but Confucius is different, because a gentleman is not as good as a villain, and a scholar is not like a craftsman, like Newton, not only plagiarizing the real father of calculus, but also constantly being surpassed by post-scholars like Einstein, Confucius said that he could not do it. As for why the ritual and music civilization represented by Confucius will be replaced by the scientific civilization represented by Newton (to put it mildly, it is the Opium War, the capture of Beijing by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and the Japanese war of aggression against China), hehe, it is just "bad money drives out good money".

Whoever is strong is great, Newton is strong, and the leader of the quantum school in Copenhagen who has this kind of IQ in history, Einstein and the proposer of M theory, Confucius is far from being compared, but he became a saint in the era when there were no other useful people.

There is no comparison between philosophy and science (of course, some people say that philosophy is the foundation of all disciplines, and this broad philosophy includes natural philosophy, and Confucius obviously does not involve this field, so the philosophy we are talking about is in a narrow sense and does not include natural philosophy). In their respective fields, Newton said that he was second in the field of science, and no one dared to say that he was first, including Einstein, who was slightly inferior. But Confucius, if you want to praise him as the first in philosophy, he himself will be embarrassed, and he will feel that you are praising him.

Newton is a scientist, Confucius is a thinker, Newton's science benefits all mankind and continues to contribute to today's era, Confucius's ideas have influenced Chinese for thousands of years, but Confucius's ideas are not universal, can only affect specific regions and specific groups. And somewhat outdated. For the feudal rulers, Confucius was undoubtedly greater than Newton, and for today's people, Confucius's ideas are far less progressive than those of Western thinkers centered on democracy, fraternity, and enlightenment.

Objectively speaking, today, Newton and Confucius are compared, just like Einstein and Dong Zhongshu, who is greater.

Newton studied the laws of nature, the natural picture, Confucius studied the way people behave, social relations, human existence, there will be human relations, when human beings perish, the universe will still operate according to the laws discovered by Newton, greatness is the judgment of the human heart, and the human heart has no standard.

This view is incorrect, Newton and Confucius are not the same field, both have made significant contributions in their own field, so it cannot be compared in this way, both are great.

The hundred schools of thought correspond to the ancient Greek philosophers, and that era was indeed the first era in human history. In China, there were Confucius, Mencius, Mozi, Laozi, Zhuangzi, etc., and in ancient Greece, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Sakyamuni were also in that era. Most of the great philosophical ideas were put forward at that time, and they were only perfected later.

Confucius was not alone among these people. Newton created the entire modern scientific system, and it was only after him that the concept of science was born, and people used mathematics to analyze everything in the world. They weren't supposed to be compared together.

There's no science, so let's ride to you and talk at the top speed, and if you want to be comfortable, it's a good idea to hire a few more servants to carry you over. Without Confucianism, we don't seem to lack anything? One is one of the founders of the modern world, and the other is one of the embodiment of the ideals and beliefs of the earth's eastern civilization.

Newton was a practical scientist, and Confucius was a god of cultural beliefs. The world didn't need the Mayan civilization's cultural belief in God, and that was exactly what happened. Without science, the height of civilization would be severely limited.

As for the absence of cultural beliefs, ha, how is that possible? If it is an individual, he will be held hostage by the beliefs of his own culture. But it is undeniable that Confucianism is the great wisdom of the Chinese, which can allow a group of people to enjoy a life in peace.

I would like to ask young people, do you believe in science or Confucianism?

In fact, there is no comparison between Newton and Confucius, Newton's theory is for science, and Confucius's theory is for politics, which is not the same thing. In terms of influence, Newton's theory has influenced the whole world, and the influence of Confucius's theory is limited to the land of China.

What Confucius did was his subjective understanding of the objective world, and what Newton did was an inductive summary of the objective laws. This question does not take into account the limitations of the time in which the two men lived, and the fact that Newton was born thousands of years later than Confucius. The principles and methods discovered by Confucius and Newton have both contributed greatly to the advancement of history.

However, Confucianism, as an idea, will continue to regress with the development of the times (the part of Confucianism proposed by Confucius itself will not change, and the progress of the times will be relatively regressive), and the principles and methods discovered by Newton will always be correct as long as they are within the appropriate range. Confucius's Confucianism could play a limited role in the future, but what Newton discovered would always be useful.

Please recognize that human beings are limited in life, and the development of human beings is based on two key points.

1. The accumulation of knowledge of predecessors is not inherited, if Confucius lived in that era, there were already various documents, such as chemistry and physics. Machinery and so on are passed down, and there will inevitably be more in that era, such as the cow, the force, the eldest son, and the god son, and there are deeper studies in different art industries, but unfortunately, in the era of Confucius, there may not be a few apple trees.

2, the development of human beings is very important is observation, the premise of being able to study is to be able to observe, record, and even capture, Confucius's age does not say anything else, he does not know how many plates of the earth have, let alone he knows that the earth is round, the four major inventions, Confucius passed away before he could feel one of them.

It is better to make such comparisons with the same period, otherwise it is of little significance. Even if we are alive, we are inheriting the wisdom and accumulation of our predecessors. Really want to compare?

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In the history of human science, there are two great scientists who stood at the pinnacle, they were Newton and Einstein. So which of the two of them has contributed more to humanity? Who is greater?

How many people have benefited from Newton's Science Edifice! Newtonian science was advanced in conjunction with experimentation. Einstein built the building, and it may be that the pit inside is also very large, but no one can fill this pit, and the means of verification are limited.

This is how the Nobel Prize contradicts the theory of relativity. Of course, it's not a criticism of Ai's, just a comparison with Newton.

On the question of time, Newton was right, that is, it passes without control, and time is absolute. Why absolutely? Because time is abstract and conceptual.

It is the non-existence of sensibility, the existence of reason, and the theory of relativity has no concept of time at all, no generalization, no abstraction, so there is no such thing as time.

After Einstein appeared, people in academia considered him great. As for the comparison with Newton, because Einstein's theory has a wider scope of application, not only including Newton's theory, but also extending a wider world, and the theoretical form is more beautiful and charming than Newton's theory. So a lot of people in physics think that Einstein was greater.

Newton is even more powerful, there are many important discoveries, his theory explains the macroscopic world very strongly, and mechanics, the pioneer and originator of optics, calculus, is still used today, Einstein is only based on Newton, although his theory may be more explanatory, but you can't eat 10 buns to be full, the first nine are useless.

Most people think that Newton is greater than Einstein, because Einstein participated in the development of the atomic bomb and changed the tide of World War II, so many people think that Einstein is greater than Newton.

I just want to know how many of the people we are discussing are in science... Compared to Einstein, Newton was not only a physicist, he was also a great mathematician, and if Newton's scientific achievements were evaluated only by physics, then Newton's achievements would be cut in half...

Newton's theories are mostly correct. Newton was not only an excellent physicist, but also a mathematician, and he made great contributions.

Here's a question that stands on the shoulders of giants! Now an ordinary physics professor will know more than Einstein, can you say that he is greater than Einstein? Roughly speaking, Newton's work was to open up, and Einstein's work was to develop.

Einstein just gives a mathematical process that is able to cope with the problem temporarily, not really solving the problem.

Because Newton revealed real laws, while Einstein's theory of relativity still needs to be truly verified, and there is a high probability that it will be falsified.

Because Newton's laws solve countless technical problems encountered in reality, and Einstein's theory of relativity has limited uses and is very controversial, I think Newton is much greater than Einstein.