Who's the smartest?

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
Distinct lack of artists there.

Agreed.

Originally posted by leana marie
i dont know who aristotle is but thats who i picked because the name is cool.

You're joking, right? You don't know who Aristotle is?

Please tell me you're joking.

why should there be more artists?

I do think Mozart would have been better to put up there than Oppenheimer, though

Stanley Kubrick.

Originally posted by Morgoths_Wrath
why should there be more artists?

I do think Mozart would have been better to put up there than Oppenheimer, though

You have stacked it more or less completely on the scientific/technical side, which is a bit of an assumption.

Unless that was your intention.

Yeah, there were definitely some artists that were truly genius, like painters, musicians, writers and the like.

I just wouldn’t put them on the same page as the ones I mentioned, so I suppose I did lean toward the scientific/technical kind of intelligence, unintentionally though.

Originally posted by Lana
Agreed.

You're joking, right? You don't know who Aristotle is?

Please tell me you're joking.

😂

Not Shakespeare, Joyce, Nietzsche, Hegel, Kant?

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
Not Shakespeare, Joyce, Nietzsche, Hegel, Kant?

When I say “not on the same page”, I don’t mean that the ones I mentioned are any better than the artists, I just mean it’s a different type of intelligence.

I should have been more specific when I made the topic, but I was focusing on the scientific intelligence. I’m not sure why, but when I think of intelligence I think of scientists, mathematicians, and the like. Not sure why I wouldn’t consider artists, since they can be just as intelligent, if not more so, but just in a completely different way.

I guess I was looking at intelligence as…people who have made major contributions to science and technology as a result of their intelligence.

Fair enough.

I might have to go with Da Vinci.

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
I might have to go with Da Vinci.

Me too. He used his paintings as to clues to Jesus and Mary Magdalene. He also made an "army" of unnamed devices and machines 😖mart:

Originally posted by Inspectah Deck
Me too. He used his paintings as to clues to Jesus and Mary Magdalene. He also made an "army" of unnamed devices and machines 😖mart:

I hope you're joking too. 😛

hehe BF that was a pretty good one 😉 well it all depends on what field we are talking about, Einstein cant be called more intellegnt then say Bach or Mozard they did not do the same thing, I'd say the most intellegent person ever, is the one that is a master I mean really really really really sharp in more fields then any other, say a guy thats exstremly good, at almust all sports, almust all instruments, can figure out everything in math, thinks logicly, very good with people, and so on, basicly qualifies exstremly well in many diffrent things, not just 1 specific thing like some of the once in the list do.

Personally I'd say all these people are all very intelligent, just in different specific fields.

I will go with DaVinci though, I think.

Originally posted by Ulven
I'd say Newton

If any of you have had any physics, you know how much he has meant for science. I'm dazzeled over how many thing that chap managed to explain/understand.
If I had to chose from that list, I'd say he was the most "valuable" to mankind...

Yeah,man I agree with you man.

It's a tough chopice between Da Vinci, Newton and Einstein.
But I voted for DaVinci... cause he's my personal favorite.

Originally posted by Lana
You're joking, right? You don't know who Aristotle is?

Please tell me you're joking.

Originally posted by debbiejo
diffenetly not Freud.

what makes you say that?

Most of his theories have been disproven for one thing.

I have no idea how Bill Gates has more votes than Stephen Hawking and Benjamin Franklin combined.

Cuz Stephen Hawkings although brilliant in a scientific arena Bill Gates appeals to more people with his marketing brilliance the man is a billionare after what 15-20 years......one of the richest men on the planet......anyway Hawkings is brilliant just writes about quasars and black holes and gravity and yeah yeah tough reading

Gates was lucky more than brilliant. If he had never bought Q-DOS he wouldn't be where he is today.