Who do you think the smartest person ever is?

We can get into details why later so we can make comparisons.

For me I think it's Leonardo Da Vinci.

That honor must be shared among the the anonymous few who, through the dim mists of history contributed so much toward the developement of society,re:the distillation spirits and the discovery of the enema.

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I once read that Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is estimated to have one of the highest IQ's ever, above 200.

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LdV is one of the most highly regarded and so is Bill Gates, along with Blaze Pascal, Rene Descartes, Voltaire, Issac Newton, Mozart, Albert Einstein, and so on. There is a definite group of notables who are several steps in skills and achievement beyond most of the rest of humanity. It would be difficult to compare their skill level unless you could devise a series of tests that would permit a fair comparison. If that could be done, I submit the folk who wrote that test would probably have to be very close to the smartest person(s) ever.

In a similar way, the brightest doesn’t always stand out, Karl Marx drew most of his inspiration from Fred Engles and Georg Hegel, yet the great philosophical and social movement that followed their writings wasn’t known as Englesim. Same is true with Sigmund Freud, who many suggest drew, even stole most of his inspiration from Fred Nietzsche, yet when someone says something that isn’t quite what they though they were gonna say, isn’t know as a Nietzschian slip.

So we have a conundrum: how to separate the brightest from the best thief? Or in the end, is it the case that the best thief really is the brightest?

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There are so many people that are eligible for the "smartest person ever" title which makes it very tough on deciding. If I have to pick who was the smartest person ever, I would also have to agree with Medmech's choice of Leonardo Da Vinci. This man was a genius who not only was famous for his artistic works, but also for his scientific and inventions. There are not many who are good at several fields, however, Da Vinci was one of them.

Has to be tre, he was a botanist.

and your wife is a very close second right B?

I'd nominate my wife since she married me.

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this Q is so easy, i'm shocked ya'll missed it so blatantly. the only puzzler is who is smarter, Barabara Boxer, Nancy Pellosi or Hillary Clinton?


sorry Mod, the spirit was willing but the flesh was weak, therefore i sin.

Ahh, Azimuth, none of the above.

KirkVining was the smartest person ever.

touche'

Frank Plumptorn Ramsey, who proved the unproveable and who first introduced the notion of n-degrees (six?) of separation. He died at the age of 26.

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Well you got your intellectual and then you got your smart. For smart let me propose Glenn W. Turner, a 8th grade dropout who had been born in a charity ward with a harelip and a bad speech impediment. He was a scammer, spent some time in jail but over 800 millionaires were created and the parent company, Turner Enterprises, originally Koscot and Dare to Be Great grew into 78 companies and in 21 countries. This was back in the seventies when a $1,000,000 was actually quite a lot. His pitch was simple – give me $5,000 and I’ll show you how to go out and get people to give you $5,000 for teaching people how to give them $5,000. To this day people admire this guy. This all worked especially well in the southeast.

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"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
Marcus Aurelius

hi all
this is a no brainer-- ISAAC NEWTON

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