Einstein, Tesla, Isaac Newton, Galileo...yes.

But we even underestimate the level achieved by the Greeks. It is quite likely Archimedes had the calculus. 

The giants in this list were unburdened by the vile interpretations of Heisenburg et al and just kept going after more rational understanding of objective reality. Much of what they knew burned in Alexandria and perished the day Archimedes was slain by a brute in his study.

Heisenburg was an ardent student of Eastern religion, where contradiction is the teacher, as opposed to reality. Then he became a Nazi.

Metaphysically, it is a question of "The primacy of existence" vs "primacy of consciousness," to use Ayn Rand's forumlation. In the first, the universe exists outside of and is in no way contingent upon any given consciousness; in the second, the thinker is never free from the dim belief -- fearfully or triumphantly -- that he is making it all up as he goes along.

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