in your opinion, who was the absolute greatest genius to ever live? and why?  it can be musical, mathematical, artistic, scientific, or whatever.
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Jesus Christ.  He is the Son of God.  He knows everything about everything.
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my brother's friend who is going to harvard But yea God is the smartest....\n\nJesus is my homie.
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He was a creative genius who was surely out of his mind. Dostoevsky was just as brilliant, but not as insane.
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Famous quote: "The only difference between genius and insanity is that genius has limits" -Einstein\n\nNot so famous quote: "I hate it when carrots do ballet" -little bro
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A genius is a person with distinguished mental prowess. \n\nThis can manifest either as a foremost intellect, or as an outstanding creative talent. \n\nThe IQ of a genius is usually defined as 140 or more. The term also applies to one who is skilled in many mental areas. \n\nThe term specifically applies to mental rather than athletic skills, although it is also colloquially used to denote the possession of a superior talent in any field; e.g., Pelé may be said to have a genius for football or Gandhi for diplomacy.
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Marilyn vos Savant is a columnist, not a scientist.\n\nNewton, I have to say, kicked Einstein's booty.  No doubt, Einstein was a genius, but Newton was just that much more.  Einstein made great conclusions in well developed fields, leading to new fields, but Newton created quantitaive science as we know it.  He invented calculus.\n\nBoth were very prodigious, but i have to give Newton the slight advantage for having innovated in a desert rather than flourishing in a garden, as I would say Einstein did.  Although Gauss was a mathmatician first and a scientist second, I'd also have to say he is almost on par with Einstein.  Einstein is famous for the revolutionary nature of his works, while Gauss is known for the enormous quantity of work he turned out.\n\nMost over-rated: Galileo\nMost under-rated: James Clerk Maxwell
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SIR elbert einsten because he is the great scietist of history. his theory of relativity is very exellent . when this world lost after some lack year then then this theory help us because in the future scientist go on new world in the space.these all thing posible when einstien theory says\nthat  for example a man  (age=18)who live on earth and one who(age=18) which goes in the universe with the speed of light after 50 years the age of man which who live on earth his age 65 year. and one which goes in the universe with speed of light his age is 35 years. tell me which scientist is genius.
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yes!! you are soo right! he is the best ever!
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What a stroke of genius!!!!!
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einstein. he just sat in his chair and thought of theories. he did experiments in his mind
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Voltaire.  It's my favorite quote.
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Yes Mathematics is the universal lansuage and Einstein is considered a genius not because he was good at maths but because he was a great scientist. Einstein contributed more than any other scientist to the modern vision of physical reality. His special and general theories of relativity are still regarded as the most satisfactory model of the large-scale universe that we have..
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The man is a genius.  An artist like most work in oils or sculpture, his is answers.  A master.
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I love it when people, not only can't spell, but they can't construct an intelligible question. \n\nHey, genius, most beartiful (beautiful) WHAT?
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I think Galileo is the only one who can match Newton in breadth and depth of knowledge. Archimedes and Euclid were forced to use an undeveloped framework, Descartes was overly concerned about philosophy, Gauss, Euler and Hawking are too theoretical, Da Vinci not theoretical enough, Einstein's and Curie's fields of study were rather narrow...I think that covers all possible candidates...
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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn-- he's my favorite.\nTitian, Claude Monet, Pieter Aertsen, Alessandro Algardi, Sir Anthony van Dyck, etc. \n\nFor a large list:
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G O d B L e s s u\n\n10 points to the genius please.