Teempakguy:
They don't even use Thomas Edison's light bulb in advanced countries anymore.

This is not a contest. Thomas Edison is nothing compared to Einstein.

ValentineMary:
Einstein is a God in science. He solved a question no human attempted for 300 years. He proved the atom, proved space time curvature (thus proving Newton wrong), discovered the popular E = MC ² , etc. While Thomas just stole Tesla idea of the light bulb and commercialized it.

It's an insult to Einstein to compare him with Thomas Edison.

Teempakguy:
They don't even use Thomas Edison's light bulb in advanced countries anymore.

This is not a contest. Thomas Edison is nothing compared to Einstein.

martineinstein:
if u think bulb is only edison's contribution,then u must be joking

AKBliv010:

Books...you sabi read abi?

ValentineMary:
Einstein is a God in science. He solved a question no human attempted for 300 years. He proved the atom, proved space time curvature (thus proving Newton wrong), discovered the popular E = MC ² , etc. While Thomas just stole Tesla idea of the light bulb and commercialized it.

It's an insult to Einstein to compare him with Thomas Edison.

vodutive:


spoken like a true Nigerian, the light bulb paved the way for all forms of ligting that followed. Nobody drives the Model T ford or the Original motor vehicle invented by Carl Benz anymore does that mean Henry Ford and Carl Benz are irrelevant? This is the problem with Nigeria and why we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over, we forget history, forget our culture, have no museums and think it's irrelevant and so we move into the future like a people without purpose.

African history and great people of Africa you do not know, nstead you are debating Einstein v Edison


why do we know about these people? because the white man does not forget his history and his great men and is forever telling you his history. Africans are too busy trying to act western and hide their history

tdayof:
Albert. Even Nikola Tesla was greater than Thomas Edison. Edison tried to discredit Tesla and his inventions , which a true genius would have never done.

It would be not prudent to compare them, but still I'd go with Albert Einstein.
The reason is clear; Einstein's famous 'thought experiment' was something that was never thought of previously (however there are claims that the conclusions drawn by Einstein were already contrived up by someone before, but let's just leave it), and still remains fundamentally correct.

Edison certainly has several patents to his name, more than a thousand, but then one should know the fact that it was not only Edison behind what these patents are. His whole team was behind the curtain, and their credits were credited to Edison. It also is easy to grasp that the inventions he did, like gramophone, voting machines, etc. (mind well light bulb wasn't invented by him, he just perfected it) could be made by other individuals sooner or later, he was just the 'first one'.

On the other hand, the ideas posed by Einstein are revolutionary, out of the box, yet true. Not only did he dare to establish his weird idea, but also proved them, mathematically, stating that he didn't hypothesize things. Until now, nobody and nothing has disproved Einstein's theory of relativity. It has stood shiningly through all the tests scientists have posed.

Edison also was not a better person by nature. He literally harassed Nikola Tesla, an other better genius counterpart of him, because Tesla just said that Edison's direct current system was inefficient; which led to the famous 'war of currents' between them, which was of course won by Tesla.

[b]For those who'll argue that there is no impact of Einstein's ideas on the common man compared to Edison's, here's something to read:
-Einstein's theories of relativity (both, general and special) play an important role in GPS navigation system most of us internet users rely upon.
-Einstein's paper about the photoelectric effect revolutionised the solar panels, which are likely to be one of the primary technology which is needed to be perfected for the future absence of the conventional energy sources. He got the Nobel prize for this.
-Due to his ideas, we've been able to understand the universe in a better way, and hence the astrophysics is flourishing.
-Electromagnets (which inarguably play a substantial role in every person's life) are better understood by Special theory of relativity. (Google 'relativistic electromagnetism')
For physicists, his ideas still serve as the supporting blocks to develop new theories.
-His prediction that gravity 'bends' the space-time and hence light, ruptured Sir Newton's theory about Gravity; now we know Gravity better.
-His concept of bending of space-time helped physicists understand the presence of dark matter.
-His one of the spookiest theory about Quantum Entanglement was later proved to be correct, which might (repeat, might) provide an insight on the development of technology for teleportation.
Yes, he has made certain mistakes, but they still fail Edison to elevate intellectually compared to Einstein, in my opinion.
The bottom line:
Mother earth could have given birth to an other Edison, but Einstein is unique. [/b]
Also I have the graceful Time magazine to back me up:
[img]http://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-2fae49e7b370ca8924bec4c366a75702-c?convert_to_webp=true[/img]

Comparison is out of it. If you really enjoy physics, you will know the difference. It's not just about reading about their achievement.

Teempakguy:
They don't even use Thomas Edison's light bulb in advanced countries anymore.

This is not a contest. Thomas Edison is nothing compared to Einstein.

Teempakguy:
They don't even use Thomas Edison's light bulb in advanced countries anymore.

This is not a contest. Thomas Edison is nothing compared to Einstein.

slikcipher:
Leonardo Da Vinci