Over the years a number of scientist have met a violent end, or have died under suspicious circumstances......

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People want to kill scientists. That is strange. You'd think attorneys would be more likely to be murdered.

In a world full of over 6 billion people I'm sure you could construct similar lists of suspicious deaths for people from just about any occupation you can imagine.

In the case of attorneys I imagine you could easily construct a quite lengthy list of attorneys who have been murdered if you have the desire to compile it.

Right. They don't have to be numerous to have a high percentage of suspicious deaths in the profession.

Look at Jesus. His death was rather suspicious and violent for sure.

Or Buddha. He died.

Or all the Greek and Roman gods. They had claimed immortality, but look at where they are now. Nowhere.

Virtually all gods that had been worshipped at one point or another had a suspicious disappearance. You can't find the bodies. Their houses stand empty. No coroner's reports. Nothing. Just like HEWWWUPP, they each do a Jimmy Hoffa sooner or later.

me thinks dead kennedys outnumber dead scientists.

I've always thought that the great scientists live on inside of the minds and hearts of the current thinkers and people they have influenced. Take Einstein for example. He put forth ideas that enable many common experiences and settings that characterize the life of people today commonly. Like the automatic sensors on doors, or the ones that stop your food from colliding into the register workers space when dealing with the customer that is just in front of you in line. There was also a patent that existed first by Bucky that was later ruled over in court, where Einstein said that the idea was first Bucky's over whoever was the opposing party. Einstein helped apply his theoretical knowledge and skills to a self adjusting camera that many later models were based on. I don't know enough about camera's to know if this is still the case, but it very well might be. Also, I vaguely remember a seminar where people were talking about a small device that measured some property of the blood, small enough to perform intraveiniously, which needed to be explained and further worked on using his ideas applied of a magnetic field and thermal properties. So in a real sense, as I waited for people to dismiss to tell the lecturer, and still managed to talk to a girl about her scientific dreams even afterwords, "Einstein is in our veins."

It's tough to say if their contributions affect the natural world, or greater universe in some way. In some way, yes, but only in the small way that individual and everyone is attached to the greater cosmos, and to the extent that these creative, technical and in some cases imaginative thinkers donned their caps to the society that provided for them moreso than other elite groups.