Who is the greatest genius of all time?
 

Einstein?
Da Vinci?
Michelangelo?
Newton?
Tesla?
Bell?
Edison?
Socrates?
Shakespeare?
Dante?
Milton?
Dostoyevsky?
Cervantes?
Goethe?
Nietzsche?
Bach?
Beethoven?
Descartes?
Aristotle?
Galileo?
Tchaikovsky?
An ancient architect?
Hawking?
Hitchcock?
Nabokov?
Kubrick?
Kierkegaard?
Sartre?
Jesus?
Mohammed?
Buddha?

(keep in mind there are many other choices to be had here, these are just some suggestions)

Don't rule out the great artists because of lack of contributions to
science. I think a great artist must have an abnormally well grasp of the universe (for a human that is) to really be able to make beautiful art.



Give some reasons too. I'm not sure I have an opinion as of yet, but I'd be tempted to sway towards a philosopher or an artist(writer, painter, composer) over a man of science.

Kurt C03ain!11111!1

^^ we will take it that your drunk.da vince had a good run so i will say him.

Definitely not Tchaikovsky. Other than that, I have no idea.

Da Vinci in my opinion.

Your not going to make it on the list, im joking :p

and stoned.

Difficult to say 'cause there are many people in different fields, that have done great things for mankind.
In the last 50 years I'd have to choose electrical engineers Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce for inventing the silicon chip (1961).
Our lives wouldn't be the same, if it weren't for them.

i chose leonardo because he was the best all rounder.

i would have to say....


myself.


but then.. i'm biased.

Certainly not Steve Mcfuckinglaren. Jose Mourinho, methinks.


(Do excuse me, I'm just trying to wind up the fishmonkey :p)

You've managed to wind up the Danny, too, you Chelsea bastard!

In answer to the question, it's Jesus. I don't think anyone else has had that impact on western society for a good 2000 years.

Yawn.

Is that Dave Yawn or Sean Yawn?


EDIT - Pete Yawn?

jesus was certainly a shrewd buisnessman.

Jesus had God on his side to give him all the answers. Surely a genius has to find the answers for himself?

h to the m, hooooomer!

syd barrett

sonicl's jesus post^:
I always took that apllication and directed it towards Batman and the rest of the so called superheroes, I mean all Batman had were incredibly innovative gadgets,but at his essence he was merely a mortal human with no special power. Every other hero had a special power(s) and simply used them to help people, which, is a noble act, but Batman was a true hero because of his mortality.

therefore - batman is the greatest genius of all time.
so that's settled then!!

fuck yeh i go batman too.

In a vague vein of being a devil's advocate, I'd say Bill Gates belongs on the list of significant contributors. With his technological innovation and business savvy (he basically smoked Apple, and made PC technology available to the masses), he has literally changed the basic mechanics of modern society, and revolutionized the processing and dissemination of data. You corporate-bashing folk may knock him, but one must give credit where it's due.

Buckminster Fuller

When Buckminster Fuller came to Canada, he kept asking the same question:
“Have you ever really considered how much your buildings weigh?”
The Canadians took this very seriously. (Hey, we never thought of that!)
He showed them plans for domed cities, cities with no basements, no foundations.
Cities that could be moved in a minute.
Portable cities.
Portable towns.

He said;
Think of it as camping out.
Think of it as one big tent.
He said:
Think of it as
The Big Top ... spinning ... lightweight ... portable.

He said: Think of it as
The Big Top.
Spinning ...
Lightweight ...
Flyaway ...

He said:
Think of it as the
Big Top.
__________
You people don't know too much about Einstein, do you? Or is that the part you do know about, you don't understand too terribly well? Or is it that your natural disposition is just that creepy? Yeah, that's probably it. It's monstrously pathetic, by the way, to live in this present day and age and not fully grasp the significance of Albert Einstein.

I have déjà vu.

Bump!

Da Vinci. Anyone who predicts the tank, and airplanes centuries beforehand is a genius.

William Blake

did you watch manhunter last night as well?

the greatest genius in history was and is Archimedes

Read about him. read about what he did WAYYYY before leonardo. he was so ahead of hsi time that we still ahve not caught up. archimedes is and was and will be THE SHIT

David Helfgott

haha.
i've met the guy in question.

Jamie Stewart

No? I rarely watch TV, what was it about?

well its a film by michael mann about a serial killer known as the tooth fairy who worships the red dragon by blake. there was a remake with edward norton recently called red dragon. it wasnt as good.

Of course, Manhunter is the prequel to Silence of the Lambs.
The new Hannibal Rising movie I suppose would be a pre-prequel, then? haha

A friend and I were up in C-Ville a few years back (this was when I still lived in Athens) and, as a reporter for Flagpole magazine in Athens, he got to attend Anthony Hopkin's press conference at the Virginia Film Festival for Hannibal. So, my friend asked me beforehand what question(s) he should ask, and since the theme of the festival that year was "Animal Attractions," http://www.vafilm.com/2000/ I suggested he ask him about any pets (or livestock---thought that would get a laugh) he owned, and then follow it up with a serious question about what he thinks of Hollywood's practice of banking on sequels and what his thoughts were on motion picture sequels, in general. As predicted, the first question was a hit and Hopkins told about his dogs and bird, and then my friend aggressively was able to ask the follow-up as well and the mood turned in an instant. Sir Anthony was quite flummoxed, and, after a slight pause of momentary uncertainty and mumbling something about "not being Tom Cruise," he just flat-out ignored the question and turned his attention elsewhere to the next reporter.

I liked Red Dragon, but never saw the original version- Manhunter. Why's it better?

oh yeh I've seen red dragon, I thought it was pretty good. Have you seen Dead Man with Johnny Depp? Some Indian guy thinks that he is William Blake, I thought it was really good.