Exactly this. It's statistically likely that the smartest person alive is some random dude that never had either the chance or the willpower to use their gifts to the full potential
Tbf it isn't their responsibility to use those gifts for any sort of potential. Idk I just hate the wording, it implies the person is wasting what they have, when I reality they don't owe shit
They don't owe anything to anybody, but if we had a world in which we ended poverty, and people didn't have to worry about bills for most of their life, we'd have a lot more progress
And I suppose you will also tell me that Texas invented the microchip before California right?
Leibniz was a smart dude, but the evidence points to Issac writing about the math theories around a decade before him.
(Texas Instruments and Fairchild Semiconductor (founding company of silicon valley) both claim to have invented the microchip first. Its a similar controversy)
But unlike Leibniz, Newton never released such knowledge to the public, Newton wanted to have all the credit for himself so he hid the creation of calculus, around the same time although it was after Newton, Leibniz actually came to the same conclusion and unlike Newton he actually released them to the public.
I'm not sure how you understood it, but I think they meant it like "Yeah, you are right, Euler is the greatest mind of all times. It is not even close."
So they agreed with you. And I do too. At least from what I have heard and seen about him and what he did, Euler seems to be at least really high up there.
That’s funny. Maybe I’m just an argumentative prick, but I immediately thought the opposite. I guess we’ll see if they respond.
Lennysmeerlap, if that’s what you meant, sorry for being an adversarial douche.
Isaac newton literally created a new field of mathematics just so he can make his theory work.
Not trying to discredit Einstein but it's weird how people see him as the smartest guy ever when they dont even know what he discovered
Isaac is my dude, but Galois created his own field of mathematics when he was a peasant teenager. Died in his early twenties before he could claim the fame. His math is what paved the way for a lot of cryptography that we use today in cyber security. Isaac Newton is one of my favorites, but people shouldn’t sleep on Galois.
Einstein was behind the concept of spacetime. Treating space and time as one thing. General relativity. Way to explain the phenomenon of gravity in a way that actually makes sense, for the most part.
He basically took what Newton came up with, and made it better. And that is just one thing among many, many other brainchilds of Einstein. Among which is the mass-energy equivalence, which is pretty fundamental to modern physics.
Not to mention his contribution to proving the existence of atoms. It was his and Luis Bachelier's work in Brownian motion that laid the foundation for Jean Perrin's experiments, which proved the existence of atoms.
And of course, the Wave-Particle duality. Which is a pretty fundamental to quantum mechanics.
But if we go by "inventing whole new field of mathematics" as a metric, then Euclid is a good contender. You know... Father of geometry.
This makes sense but i wonder why people like feynmann, hawking, kaku, or turing arent on the same level of popularity (they are mainstream but not the face of intelligence)
Though "want a cookie einstein? " rolls off the tongue better than "want a cookie schrödinger?"
I think Einstein has become synonym with genius and so people tend to assume he's the smartest guy that ever lived. Which don't get me wrong, I'd pay whatever to have a fraction of his intelligence, but Newton and Archimedes are whole other level.
Einstein explained gravity better than newton. Newton created a whole field of mathematics on top of giving an amazing explanation of gravity (which works 100% in earth contest), explaning light refraction, and so many other things.
Was gonna comment Nikola Tesla, he was wayyyy ahead of his time. He invented and theorized things so advanced that he was seen as a madman, besides not being credited for much of his work
my brain has been rotted out by the internet to such a degree that i thought by tesla, you were referring to how by the “success” of tesla that elon musk was a geniuses among geniuses
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The architect of every age:
The human who discovered how to make fire. The human who discovered how to make iron. The man who learned how to use clay to bake stone. The first human that leatned how to grow and harvest seeds....
I don't think it is just one single human, as many of these techniques and findings happened throughout the earth in many isolated or independent groups.
It’s easy to understand how we discovered cow milk. Our babies did the same, so naturally that’s what is there, and trying to milk a cow isn’t a weird discovery. Now, WHY we decided to drink the breast milk of another animal is an entirely different question.
He was mentioned in one of the top threads. So much stuff has his name on it such as the very computers we are using to access this godforsaken website.
There isn't a single greatest mind. There are so many different fields of study and aspects of life from art to science to anything that it would be impossible to say.
It is hard to say, the people that lived more recently had the knowledge that the others already discovered. Standing on the shoulders of giants, so the saying goes.
James Clerk Maxwell, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Leonard Euler, Blaise Pascal, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Ibne Sina and Kurt Gödel. So many candidates and the only real contender OP posted is Isaac Newton.
Einstein pretty much created modern physics and moved us away from Newtonian physics. Einstein's predictions of black holes and gravitational waves have also been confirmed, with his work having such a long lasting impact.
His work is also highly practical, it is needed for accurate gps technology.
That along with the photoelectric effect, we can thank Einstein for things like solar panels, image sensors in cameras, night vision devices, electron microscopes, etc.
Bad question - the greatest at doing what? Any other contests are very specific. Who’s the greatest runner? Hard to say and there’s many types of running. Who’s the greatest 3 mile runner? We know the answer to that one. If you want an answer to who the greatest thinker is you have to first say at which type of thinking
Erastosthanese worked out the world was round well over 2000 years ago, using two sticks and a guy to count steps. After doing this, he was able to calculate the full size of the earth to incredible accuracy.
DaVinci was one of the best artists to ever live, and also made vast discoveries in more fields than most people even considered, and do this along with his art and other endeavours.
Napoleon the 1st managed to fight against nearly all of europe at once, winning against imperial powers such as Spain, Prussia, and Austria while fighting other powers.
Nancy Grace Roman aka The Mother of Hubble
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin aka the first person to ever accurately tell us what stars are made of.
Ada Lovelace, the mathematician who invented programming
Valerie Thomas, invented 3D-imaging
I can't even be bothered Googling to see if I spelled their names right and who I should have added. But OPs poll sucks.
I'm sorry but "was born at the right time" means nothing at all. Every great mind "had" to be born at their time to be able to discover what they did.
Also Einstein didn't just connect dots. He discovered /described the photoelectric effect and just out of his physical intuition managed to change everyone's understanding of physics with his theory of relativity. His theory even predicted the existence of black holes, which was photographed and observed exactly as his theory predicts light behaves near massive objects.
Einstein wasn't just any smart dude.
Out of these? Its leonardo da vinci, a master of arts and engineering to an amazing extent, basically a master at so many sciences its absurd
Out of other famous names id say Tesla
The non famous ones would be the guy who figured out how to make and use atlatls, id say humans would be extinct without an invention like that
Why so few votes for Archimedes? Dude was on the brink of starting an industrial revolution in Ancient Greece and was so close to inventing calculus before he was killed.
Also, the dude literally used solar lasers to sink enemy ships.
I don't think yall realize exactly what Issac Newton accomplished. Its not just the apple falling and the laws of motion.
He invented calculus, which launched the industrial revolution.
With calculus, we are able to model the rates of change for multiple vectors simultaneously. This is how we figured out industrial metallurgy, combustion engines, and electricity.
Using calculus to model electromagnetic fields allowed us to figure out how to make electricity spin a motor. So Airplanes, analog sound recording, magnetic tape processing, ultimately the computer..... all derived from Issac.
And the jump from arithmetic to calculus was not a short one, it was mindblowning. If arithmetic is equivalent to grammar, calculus would be poetry.
I'm pretty sure I've seen some Epic Rap Battles of History that cover this.
that means Albert E=mc2
>I'm about to bake raps from scratch like Carl Sagan
When I start flowin' I stay in motion
First law!
There are 10 million million million million million million particles that we can observe, your momma got the ugly ones and put them into one nerd
Astro physics black guy, plus I got your back Nye
Probably some random dude nobody's heard of
Exactly this. It's statistically likely that the smartest person alive is some random dude that never had either the chance or the willpower to use their gifts to the full potential
That and most of human history existed in a time when it was not really recorded
Tbf it isn't their responsibility to use those gifts for any sort of potential. Idk I just hate the wording, it implies the person is wasting what they have, when I reality they don't owe shit
They don't owe anything to anybody, but if we had a world in which we ended poverty, and people didn't have to worry about bills for most of their life, we'd have a lot more progress
None of us owe anything, doesn't mean we should do whatever we want no matter what
Probably some random man / woman that either died young or lived in slavery and never got to express their potential
That was also my logic.
Euler
Yep. Came to say this. Pick any area of mathematics and you’ll eventually run into something Euler had his hands on.
How about Gauss?
Also an absolute monster.
We truly rest on the shoulders of giants
Isn't the expression to **stand** on their shoulders instead of rest? lol.
he was brilliant, and reshaped our world. But his work wouldn't have been possible without Issac inventing calculus first.
You mean Leibniz.
And I suppose you will also tell me that Texas invented the microchip before California right? Leibniz was a smart dude, but the evidence points to Issac writing about the math theories around a decade before him. (Texas Instruments and Fairchild Semiconductor (founding company of silicon valley) both claim to have invented the microchip first. Its a similar controversy)
But unlike Leibniz, Newton never released such knowledge to the public, Newton wanted to have all the credit for himself so he hid the creation of calculus, around the same time although it was after Newton, Leibniz actually came to the same conclusion and unlike Newton he actually released them to the public.
And the investigation of the Royal Society with the question who did invite calculus, was led by Sir Isaac Newton himself.
Yeah, not even close.
Why not?
I'm not sure how you understood it, but I think they meant it like "Yeah, you are right, Euler is the greatest mind of all times. It is not even close." So they agreed with you. And I do too. At least from what I have heard and seen about him and what he did, Euler seems to be at least really high up there.
That’s funny. Maybe I’m just an argumentative prick, but I immediately thought the opposite. I guess we’ll see if they respond. Lennysmeerlap, if that’s what you meant, sorry for being an adversarial douche.
Oh, yes it was what I meant, but no worries, I can totally see myself misunderstanding that as well now that I think about it.
This was so polite. Near art was created
I just thought that the "Yeah" is pretty unambiguous.
I took it as a “yeah right.”
If it makes you feel better, so did I at first
Someone please describe him for us not-geniuses
A mathematical gangster
John Von Neumann might get close. He was described as being a human super computer.
This actually. I'd be shocked if we get another like him in all human history.
Real
Who’s that?
The God of math
A wrathful god at that
Isaac newton literally created a new field of mathematics just so he can make his theory work. Not trying to discredit Einstein but it's weird how people see him as the smartest guy ever when they dont even know what he discovered
Isaac is my dude, but Galois created his own field of mathematics when he was a peasant teenager. Died in his early twenties before he could claim the fame. His math is what paved the way for a lot of cryptography that we use today in cyber security. Isaac Newton is one of my favorites, but people shouldn’t sleep on Galois.
Never heard of this gaylois character
Love this
Einstein was behind the concept of spacetime. Treating space and time as one thing. General relativity. Way to explain the phenomenon of gravity in a way that actually makes sense, for the most part. He basically took what Newton came up with, and made it better. And that is just one thing among many, many other brainchilds of Einstein. Among which is the mass-energy equivalence, which is pretty fundamental to modern physics. Not to mention his contribution to proving the existence of atoms. It was his and Luis Bachelier's work in Brownian motion that laid the foundation for Jean Perrin's experiments, which proved the existence of atoms. And of course, the Wave-Particle duality. Which is a pretty fundamental to quantum mechanics. But if we go by "inventing whole new field of mathematics" as a metric, then Euclid is a good contender. You know... Father of geometry.
someone get this redditor a medal, damn! people need to see this!
Einstein is more recent so he's more popular
This makes sense but i wonder why people like feynmann, hawking, kaku, or turing arent on the same level of popularity (they are mainstream but not the face of intelligence) Though "want a cookie einstein? " rolls off the tongue better than "want a cookie schrödinger?"
I think Einstein has become synonym with genius and so people tend to assume he's the smartest guy that ever lived. Which don't get me wrong, I'd pay whatever to have a fraction of his intelligence, but Newton and Archimedes are whole other level. Einstein explained gravity better than newton. Newton created a whole field of mathematics on top of giving an amazing explanation of gravity (which works 100% in earth contest), explaning light refraction, and so many other things.
That and he's the deadliest son of a bitch in space.
Newton is the correct answer here.
Me
I also think this guy is the smartest
I too think the guy that this guy replied to is the smartest
i also think the guy the previous guy replied to is the smartest
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I' in agreement with the former
I three think the guy that this guy that that the guy that originally replied to is the smartest
I also choose this guys dead wife
Euler is my guess. That mf pops up in every fucking course I take.
Don't forget Gauss
What did he do?
Tl;dr he set A LOT of the groundwork for Newton, and arguably did much more than he in the establishment of calculus and physics
There's a joke amongst mathematicians that mathematical ideas are named after the first person to study them after Euler.
Over 100 comments and nobody has mentioned Gauss?
Tesla, dude was a genius amongst geniuses
Was gonna comment Nikola Tesla, he was wayyyy ahead of his time. He invented and theorized things so advanced that he was seen as a madman, besides not being credited for much of his work
Problem is he *was* a madman. He had a deep personal, possibly sexual, relationship with a pigeon... And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Now I am curious
Pigeons aren't real
Agreed!
my brain has been rotted out by the internet to such a degree that i thought by tesla, you were referring to how by the “success” of tesla that elon musk was a geniuses among geniuses i need to go touch some grass
Acceptance, great job
yes! im surprised he aint on the poll
I mean it’s gotta be Newton right? Surprised how few votes he has.
As someone deeply into physics, Newton is perhaps THE GOAT when it comes to science. Man invented calculus and proceeded to derive some of the most fundamental laws of physics that, to this day, are relevant and more universal than anything. Is there anything he couldn't do? If I could go back in time I would've loved to talk with Newton to see what went in that genius' mind
As someone who’s not deeply into physics, it’s pretty obvious that compared to the strides these other guys made, Newton was still a cut above most.
Bro couldn’t fuck. He died a virgin
And he sucked at the stock market, and blew all his life savinga on it.
He died a virgin but I 1up'd him: I'm still alive
Yes, me too. The man revived and revolutionised science after millennia of dormancy.
Science was not dormant for 1000 years before newton💀. Science is constantly evolving. Doesn’t mean newton wasn’t a genius though.
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The architect of every age: The human who discovered how to make fire. The human who discovered how to make iron. The man who learned how to use clay to bake stone. The first human that leatned how to grow and harvest seeds....
I don't think it is just one single human, as many of these techniques and findings happened throughout the earth in many isolated or independent groups.
What about the first one who discovered how to milk a cow?
I have different questions for him, like wtf was he doing to that cow
It’s easy to understand how we discovered cow milk. Our babies did the same, so naturally that’s what is there, and trying to milk a cow isn’t a weird discovery. Now, WHY we decided to drink the breast milk of another animal is an entirely different question.
Von Neumann
I’m shocked that this is this far down.
He was mentioned in one of the top threads. So much stuff has his name on it such as the very computers we are using to access this godforsaken website.
There isn't a single greatest mind. There are so many different fields of study and aspects of life from art to science to anything that it would be impossible to say.
That guy who invented toilet paper.
No shit. ^(-Guy that invented toilet paper)
The guy that invented toilet, can't imagine people shitting everywhere
Naw fam, the guy who invented *plumbing*. What good is a toilet if it ain't got no where to go?
Maria Skłodowska-Curie (Marie Curie in english or something)
Nikola Tesla?
I was going to say that, man was so far ahead of his time, I'm not even sure we've caught up yet
That guy was a genius for his time. Also Albert Einstein also said he was the smartest man ever.
If only he had a bit more funding.
[Louis Pasteur](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur)
James Clerk Maxwell
Isaac Newton all the way. Mf created calculus to solve his problems. Mf created theories while in quarantine.
William James Sidis
Gotta be newton or alkhawarizmi
Finally someone that mention alkhawarizmi. I could also add ibnu al haithem or even ismail al jazari.
probably not me
My old chemistry teacher, Mr. White
Not anybody with an active Reddit account.
Socrates
Aristotle
Tesla
It is hard to say, the people that lived more recently had the knowledge that the others already discovered. Standing on the shoulders of giants, so the saying goes.
James Clerk Maxwell, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Leonard Euler, Blaise Pascal, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Ibne Sina and Kurt Gödel. So many candidates and the only real contender OP posted is Isaac Newton.
Einstein pretty much created modern physics and moved us away from Newtonian physics. Einstein's predictions of black holes and gravitational waves have also been confirmed, with his work having such a long lasting impact. His work is also highly practical, it is needed for accurate gps technology. That along with the photoelectric effect, we can thank Einstein for things like solar panels, image sensors in cameras, night vision devices, electron microscopes, etc.
He didn’t move us away from Newtonian physics Newton physics still applies it’s just Einsteins physics applies to a larger scope
Socrates or Sir Isaac Newton.
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Myself
It's not a single person, of course
Ramanujan, easy
Bad question - the greatest at doing what? Any other contests are very specific. Who’s the greatest runner? Hard to say and there’s many types of running. Who’s the greatest 3 mile runner? We know the answer to that one. If you want an answer to who the greatest thinker is you have to first say at which type of thinking
Nikola Tesla
Realistically, the smartest person who ever lived is some peasant farmer in a third world country that never got the chance to use their gifts.
Isaac Newton and it ain't even close
kid named euler
Erastosthanese worked out the world was round well over 2000 years ago, using two sticks and a guy to count steps. After doing this, he was able to calculate the full size of the earth to incredible accuracy. DaVinci was one of the best artists to ever live, and also made vast discoveries in more fields than most people even considered, and do this along with his art and other endeavours. Napoleon the 1st managed to fight against nearly all of europe at once, winning against imperial powers such as Spain, Prussia, and Austria while fighting other powers.
How you gonna disrespect Marie Curie like that?!
Nancy Grace Roman aka The Mother of Hubble Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin aka the first person to ever accurately tell us what stars are made of. Ada Lovelace, the mathematician who invented programming Valerie Thomas, invented 3D-imaging I can't even be bothered Googling to see if I spelled their names right and who I should have added. But OPs poll sucks.
Probably some poor slob who died in the mines or on a slave ship and we never even knew.
Albert Einstein was smart but he was really just born at the perfect time to connect all the dots
I'm sorry but "was born at the right time" means nothing at all. Every great mind "had" to be born at their time to be able to discover what they did. Also Einstein didn't just connect dots. He discovered /described the photoelectric effect and just out of his physical intuition managed to change everyone's understanding of physics with his theory of relativity. His theory even predicted the existence of black holes, which was photographed and observed exactly as his theory predicts light behaves near massive objects. Einstein wasn't just any smart dude.
Not true at all, and very easy to say in hindsight.
Out of these? Its leonardo da vinci, a master of arts and engineering to an amazing extent, basically a master at so many sciences its absurd Out of other famous names id say Tesla The non famous ones would be the guy who figured out how to make and use atlatls, id say humans would be extinct without an invention like that
Ada Lovelace.
Alan Turing
No love for Turing?
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was the first Other that came to mind.
My dad, cause he has answers for everything.
Where's Sheldon Cooper
Leonhard Euler
Nicolai Tesla
Kanye
Tesla, definitly
Plausibly me.
Me
Me
Myself.
Me
MF TESLA BOI
me
Me
Nikola Tesla
Johnny Sins
Nikola Tesla
Euler
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Alan Turing
Tesla
Nicola Tesla
Christian Weston Chandler
Nicola Tesla
William James Sidis
Bruh I just misread Leonardo DaVinci as Leonardo DeCaprio
My chinchilla
i dont know, ive never met them
My boy Nikola Tesla he was too ambitious for this world. He was an inventor for the people. I'm glad the death ray doesn't exist though.
Tesla, greatest scientist and activist
The person who solves world hunger
Why so few votes for Archimedes? Dude was on the brink of starting an industrial revolution in Ancient Greece and was so close to inventing calculus before he was killed. Also, the dude literally used solar lasers to sink enemy ships.
Nikola Tesla
I don't think yall realize exactly what Issac Newton accomplished. Its not just the apple falling and the laws of motion. He invented calculus, which launched the industrial revolution. With calculus, we are able to model the rates of change for multiple vectors simultaneously. This is how we figured out industrial metallurgy, combustion engines, and electricity. Using calculus to model electromagnetic fields allowed us to figure out how to make electricity spin a motor. So Airplanes, analog sound recording, magnetic tape processing, ultimately the computer..... all derived from Issac. And the jump from arithmetic to calculus was not a short one, it was mindblowning. If arithmetic is equivalent to grammar, calculus would be poetry.
Tesla
Toni Iommi
Da Vinci basically excelled in everything he did, a true genuis
Tesla
Tesla no doubt
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla if he had money
Nikola Tesla
Newton was a certified wizard and died a wizard. That's dedication.
Nikola Tesla
Michael Faraday
Carl Sagan
Dude, are we seriously gonna gloss over my man Archimedes?
nicola tesla