科学文艺哪家强？

弹钢琴

I have always believed that those known scientific laws and mathematical formulas, though too profound to be discovered, would have eventually been discovered by later scholars even if their real-life originators weren't born in the first place. If Archimedes had died of smallpox when he was a child, someone else would still have constructed the intricately-designed building of geometry, say, a generation later. Since such truths coexist with the universe and won't disappear until the universe itself has disappeared, their discoveries are only a matter of time. But without Shakespeare, such great plays as Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth would never have come into existence at all. Without Van Gogh, those sunflowers would never have bloomed and The Starry Night wouldn't appear on today's T-shirts. I'm a little confused about which type of talents is greater. Is it Isaac Newton, who established classical mechanics, or Ludwig van Beethoven, who composed that famous four-note opening motif in the Fifth Symphony which has since aroused the hearts of countless dejected souls?