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-9 Post author: gwern 13 May 2011 04:14PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 14 May 2011 01:13:14AM -2 points [-]
  1. Is it reasonable to limit the list temporally only to people who lived in the 20th century & later, and so had access to all the data and philosophy done then that we take for granted?

I think that you should include James Clerk Maxwell on the list, even though he lived in the 19th century. He was such an incredible thinker in the field of physics that his devoutly religious beliefs strike me as surprising.

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