As a student working to become an astronomer and university professor, the triumphs of scientific thinking keep me inspired to continue working. I love playing videos like these, where I can learn about my field, while at work, to break the monotony. Thank you very much.

What a fantastic series. I knew about all these geniuses, but this really brought them to life.

Beautiful doc. -these human geniuses, and their holy curiosity or obsession to understand, are what have raised our world, at least the civilized part of it, to its present level of understanding of reality.. The ancient quest to know, to understand and know what makes things work, is a truly noble quest. These men deserve our admiration and respect. How different they are from the religious bigots of all persuasions who deal in myths and lies. Vive la science!

Newton's till the death spat with Hook taught me a lesson about humility and civility. There is so much aggression in the world today. We probably could have landed on the moon decades earlier if as a species we where evolved enough out of our need to dominate and destroy. It is so important to see the bigger picture and do what we can to rise above our egos. All these men are an inspiration and in a thousand years history will be incredibly immense and colorful spiced with atrocities.

from this we learn many things, importantly knowledge should be shared to purposefully progress - thanks for posting and sharing this

i remember seeing Halley's Comet last time it visited, fortunately where i am in the southern hemisphere has bugger all light pollution and the mountain near by lets you get up above the haze from moist air at night. Seeing it was an inspiration. Learning more about is influence on human history is mind blowing. Shame you only get to see it one in a life time.

Thanks for posting, great stuff!

this was beautifully amazing :,S

In my view, Sir Isaac Newton was the greatest genius who ever lived.

Wow! Sir Isaac Newton... What a F***ing genius.

Newton is awesome!

This would be a great basis for a drama (and maybe has been done: I haven't looked it up). I can imagine the grumpy curmudgeon Newton being persuaded, flattered and cajoled by the charming Halley.

Newton was one Badass scientist!!!!!!

Criminally under viewed. Newton was a mathematical genius....and I like to state the obvious apparently.

@AtheistPlanet2 Thanks for the post!

Woooow that Newton guy was pretty smaaaat

how does Halleys comet continue such a dramatic eliptical orbit? how does it get to its outer sharp turn and not just break away? quite amazing. damn, i will be 97 when it returns. actually i wont be.lol

Da Vinci is not on there because he is Italian. The program is genius of Britain.

it was the first proveable grand unified theory of the entire universe

The atomic force and gravity of normal objects can't be reconciled because the fools aren't taking the incredible distance into account. Atoms are tiny but the distance between them is vast. Account for that and you got it.

isn't it pronounced prin-sip-ia?

@thechessstick ROFL @ calling Hawking a pseudo scientist... Hawking is the most amazing physicist to have emerged in the last century. He is the leading authority on black holes. Again we see where religion limits learning and understanding how the universe works simply because it tends to debunk the myth around the Christian god...

I can see that they have mixed in a few genuine geniuses like Newton with a few pseudo-geniuses like Dawkins, Hawking, Darwin and probably Sagan. Sad, how these pseudo-scientists are included simply because they attack God.

@khote14 No actually they are quite average in their scientific understanding. Isaac Newton was a real genius. A. E. Wilder-Smith was a real genius. He was smart enough to turn from evolutionist to creationist. If one is not smart enough to do that then they are not a genius for sure. If they do not believe in God then they are not a genius for sure.