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Most intellectually impressive person in history

Who is the most seemingly "academically" brilliant human in history?

I used "intellectually impressive" because the smartest person might be some random nobody we've never heard of.

Random candidates off the top of my head:

- Newton
- Von Neuman
- Einstein
- Euler
- Gauss
- Ramanujan
- Saul Kripke
- John Stuart Mill
- Da Vinci

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Isn�t this more subjective than anything else?

I always felt Tesla was one of most brilliant minds of his times. Same with Alexander the Great and Hannibal when it came to warfare.

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No Stephen Hawking?

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No Stephen Hawking?

Hawking is obviously extremely sharp, but he's not on the level of someone like Newton.

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What about philosophers like Plato?

Apr 10th, 2018 09:57 PM

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Off your list, I'd go with Newton, his works is what others on your list learned from themselves and expanded.

Da Vinci was an everything man, but I don't think his influence is the same as Newton, even if he lived and died 100+ years before Newton was born.

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Da Vinci was an everything man, but I don't think his influence is the same as Newton, even if he lived and died 100+ years before Newton was born.

a result of the times rather than insufficient intelligence, I'd think.

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What about philosophers like Plato?

I could certainly see that. I haven't read Plato's works but from what I can tell it doesn't seem as profound to me as a lot of more modern philosophers, but I am speaking from a bit of ignorance here.

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Da Vinci was an everything man, but I don't think his influence is the same as Newton, even if he lived and died 100+ years before Newton was born.

Da Vinci certainly wasn't as influential as Newton, but as kbro says I don't think it was a lack of brilliance that held him back from doing more.

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Oh, I'm not doubting Da Vinci's intelligence, he seems to be an upper-end genius in the upper-end genius pool. Just not sure he would have accomplished the same as Newton had he been born half-way into the 17th century. But certainly possible/debatable.

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William James Sidis may actually be the most intelligent person ever recorded, but he wouldn't crack the top 10,000 most academically prolific.

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da Vinci is actually one of the top minds in human history. If we review this, academically, it is da Vinci by a very large margin.

Sidis' exploits are suspect with many believing it to be exaggerated.

Also, considering the S&B4 and 5 do not go above 170, many of these "IQs" are suspect. (I know, not all IQ tests are the S&B)

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da Vinci is actually one of the top minds in human history. If we review this, academically, it is da Vinci by a very large margin.

Expand on that please.

He's definitely the most interesting genius to me in the list of geniuses posted.

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Galileo.

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Galileo Figaro, magnifico o o o.

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In all seriousness though, probably Tesla. He'd be my pick.

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Goethe.

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You expect us to rank people we know nothing about aside from their historical achievements? Not a very good way of scoping IQ

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Goethe.

It's interesting how literary greats of older eras were often also into the sciences, as opposed to a greater split today.

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I guess those that had the privilege of pursuing higher education back then went for the full course.

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I guess those that had the privilege of pursuing higher education back then went for the full course.

Yeah, subjects are way more complicated and specialized nowadays.

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