Science & Nature
Rankings are recomputed on the monthly poll cycle.
AI Consensus Ranking
- #1Germ Theory of Disease86.2
- #2falsifiability84.3
- #3The scientific method75.6
- #4Empiricism65.0
- #5Quantum Mechanics62.4
- #6Evolution by natural selection55.1
- #7Gravity49.5
- #8Vaccination48.9
- #9relativity46.4
- #10Atomic Theory44.8
- #11Energy and conservation44.7
- #12Peer review and criticism44.0
- #13DNA43.7
- #14Louis Pasteur42.5
- #15Newton’s Laws of Motion and Universal Gravitation42.2
- #16Digital Systems and Networks40.7
- #17The Copernican Principle40.5
- #18electromagnetism39.6
- #19Antibiotics (Penicillin)36.4
- #20Structure of DNA36.3
- #21correlation vs. causation35.8
- #22Laws of thermodynamics and entropy35.7
- #23Hypothesis and testing35.3
- #24Theories33.2
- #25Heliocentrism31.6
- #26Science as a distinctive method of inquiry31.2
- #27Electricity30.7
- #28Alexander Fleming30.4
- #29Cause and effect30.0
- #30Hygiene30.0
- #31Antibiotics29.6
- #32Probability and uncertainty27.7
- #33Earth in motion27.2
- #34Systematic experimentation25.3
- #35sciencenews.org25.0
- #36Experimental Evidence as Arbiter25.0
- #37Smallpox vaccine24.5
- #38Cosmology and the Big Bang24.4
- #39Naturalism23.8
- #40Newton23.4
- #41Observation and measurement23.1
- #42Testability23.1
- #43Uniformity of nature21.9
- #44Copernicus21.2
- #45Koch21.2
- #46Theory building and revision21.2
- #47Edward Jenner20.3
- #48Albert Einstein20.1
- #49theory of general relativity20.0
- #50plate tectonics19.9