"You can't equate a thinker and a madman, or science and crime."
Tell that to The Max Planck Society.
""You can't equate a thinker and a madman, or science and crime."
It is wrong and very dangerous to dismiss people like Hitler (or Ahmedijad, or Kim Jong Il, etc.) as "madmen." These people are in fact "thinkers," even intellectuals of a sort. The problem is not that they are "crazy," but that they are evil. Their ideas didn't come out of psychotic delusions, but from the intellectual climate of their time. Racism, evolution, and eugenics were popular among intellectuals in the period when Hitler was cooking up his ideology. Not that Darwin was to blame for Hitler, but his ideas were influential.