How do you feel about the amazingly intellegent people from our past? Ex.. Newton, Da Vinci,.....?
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I have a crush on all of them.
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You are obviously very intelligent and talented!  Very impressive.\nIf I'm not mistaken, Leonardo Da Vinci wrote his journals that way.  Perhaps you are related to him!  :)
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Probably not, unless they had scientific proof that they were the creators of mankind.  Even so, why should I fall down and worship them?
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Please let me apologise at least for my assumptions about this topic. Seriously. Those who think that feel that you have not lived it, therefore you can not understand it. But that is not always true. I apologise because I have been guilty of that mind set before. In their defense, ever heard of a young wise man? That's because the wise man has seen and experienced many, many things and has learned from that. See what I mean?
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Do you think that the truly intelligent people are the ones that are not satisfied with the level of learning they have achieved, and are constantly trying to find ways to learn more?  And don't spend their time talking about how much smarter they are than everyone else?  : )
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If you go back far enough everyone is.\nThey're nothing special only their forefathers were the most successful killers and robbers of their time.\nI should keep quiet about it , it's embarrassing.
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Yes, this people born that day:\n1454 - Poliziano, Florentine humanist (d. 1494) \n1602 - Jules Mazarin, French statesman and cardinal (d. 1661) \n1608 - George Goring, Lord Goring, English royalist soldier (d. 1657) \n1610 - Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1670) \n1634 - Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (d. 1719) \n1671 - Jacques D'Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1732) \n1675 - Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (d. 1747) \n1676 - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (d. 1763) \n1696 - William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (d. 1761) \n1721 - John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (d. 1807) \n1743 - Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (d. 1816) \n1801 - Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (d. 1858) \n1816 - Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (d. 1882) \n1829 - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1896) \n1857 - Emmeline Pankhurst, English suffragette (d. 1928) \n1859 - Willy Hess, German violinist (d. 1928) \n1860 - Owen Wister, American author (d. 1938) \n1862 - Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1918) \n1868 - Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator (d. 1926) \n1885 - King Sisavang Vong of Laos (d. 1959) \n1891 - Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician (d. 1977) \n1904 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish Yiddish author (d. 1991) \n1906 - Tom Carvel, Greek-born businessman and inventor (d. 1990) \n1910 - William Hanna, American animator (d. 2001) \n1912 - Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic (d. 1991) \n1912 - Woody Guthrie, American folk musician (d. 1967) \n1913 - Gerald Ford, President of the United States \n1918 - Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film and theatre director \n1918 - Arthur Laurents, American playwright, novelist, and director \n1919 - Lino Ventura, Italian-born actor (d. 1987) \n1921 - Leon Garfield, English children's author (d. 1996) \n1921 - Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate \n1923 - Dale Robertson, American actor \n1924 - James W. Black, Scottish pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine \n1926 - Harry Dean Stanton, American actor \n1927 - John Chancellor, American television commentator (d. 1996) \n1930 - Polly Bergen, American actress, singer, and entrepreneur \n1932 - Roosevelt Grier, American football player, actor, and minister \n1937 - Yoshiro Mori, Japanese politician \n1938 - Jerry Rubin, American activist (d. 1994) \n1939 - Karel Gott, Czech singer \n1939 - George E. Slusser, American scholar and writer \n1941 - Maulana Karenga, American author and activist \n1941 - Andreas Khol, Austrian politician \n1942 - Javier Solana, Spanish European Union foreign policy chief \n1946 - John Wood, Australian actor \n1950 - Gwen Guthrie, American singer (d. 1999) \n1951 - Erich Hallhuber, German actor (d. 2003) \n1956 - Ran Andrews, Canadian painter \n1961 - Jackie Earle Haley, American actor \n1966 - Charles Edward Ambler, British noble \n1966 - Matthew Fox, American actor \n1967 - Robin Ventura, baseball player \n1971 - Bubba Ray Dudley, American professional wrestler \n1977 - Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden \n1988 - James Vaughan, English footballer
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I asked too, and was told he has always been present, which scares me and answer a lot of questions.  I guess he was around forever.  He was the one who created everything like, dinosaurs, etc. So I guess he got better along the way and created man and we have been here every since.  WOW!  I never thought of it that way.  Still confused, I am on a mission know.  To be honest I don't think we are going to get a straight answer because that will prove the true existence and challenge everything that we believe.  Imagine what would become of the world if we found out this was all a farce to keep most of us straight.  It is because of religion that we are doing okay today, of course man has rules. laws, and regulations for the ones who are non-believer's and the slackers. That would open up another Pandora's Box.  WOW!
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This may sound sick, but maybe a gladiator exhibition at the Coliseum in Rome. Have you seen the movie Gladiator? I also would have loved to be on the first trip to the moon or on Christopher Columbus's first trip to the Americas. It's kind of sad that at this stage in history we think we know everything. I guess there are always other planets and biological discoveries, but somehow those don't equate to discovering the old "new frontier."
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Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Ludwig van Beethoven, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Paul MacCartney, Benjamin Franklin, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, H. G. Wells, Charlie Chaplin, chess genius Bobby Fisher, former US presidents Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, and former vice-president Al Gore to name a few...and then there is me =)  It is nice being in your right mind!
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Someone whom I find interesting and a person of intelligece .\nEinstein, Abe Lincoln, Leonardo Da Vinci or Shakespeare (he's real right?)\nOops you said one.\nOkay then, Abraham it is.
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I dont know if we have acheived more.  Think about the Egyptians.  They were not white.  Think about the Aztecs or the Mayans.  They were not white.  In fact, if you consider the capabilites we have versus the capabilites they had, and then compare the accomlishments, they are heads above us.  And we have not behaved very well in our past.  As humans of conscience, we should be apologetic for out shameful moments.
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what a wonderful subject.Can you believe it?!\nI was very sad before I read your question but as i read it I feel comfortable and happy.Thank you.By the way: \nHELLO \n  (~_0)
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Charles Darwin\n\nIssac Newton
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Without a dought back 100 years ago. They had more hardships but they had more respect for everything back then. We have it good now but maybe its too good. We tend to take everything forgranted. Back then was just a simpler time.
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Ben Franklin.  Ahead of his time, creative in multiple fields from science to diplomacy, apparently a great conversationalist.\n\nThis is a fairly common question, but a great one nonetheless when the person can be dead or alive. Another version of the question asks you to name 3 people, dead or alive, who can come from different historic times.  Would be fun to pair up Franklin with Da Vinci, for example.  Hard for me to choose the 3rd one, though.  If I had to choose, I'd also invite Shakespeare, but there are many others.
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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