Steven Hawkins is potentially even smarter, these people have an understanding of life that the majority of people to ever walk the earth will never come close to. High IQ is good, applying that to become wealthy is better.
Hence the old saying, if you are so smart, why aren't you rich? Can we please account for the hidden and undocumented geniuses who did not make the history books, I can only imagine how many reclusive intuitive geniuses are unaccounted for an made huge discoveries in potentially undiscovered areas. When you see things you can't understand, or words that don't seem to add up; they need to be investigated.
If we start looking for them, or minimally have an assignment where manifestations can transcend, we will start to see a rise. Until then, having a general society of overconfident adult sized children working for 5th grader adults who are overconfident is what the recipe is calling for.
If we transcended every consumer into a designer, we would get an insane amount of human power. The amount of man hours consumed by wasteful social media browsing, and mindless information regarding people who have no meaning in their lives, yet are held with the most value-- even above themselves and their families. Until then, we choose to trap those with less resources into redundant lives, which have very little growth with quality life expertise and well roundness.
We are not running a rat race anymore, we are sitting on the wheel watching insignificant scripted personalities, and with enough exposure, we can't escape the influences of a hierarchy system that is eliminating the most powerful tool of mankind, which is expanding information that is useful for not just the empowered, but also the lack of power.
Not having friends in this point of my life, or a wife even, is the most beneficial decision I will probably ever make. One most important person is missing. Is the man called Phillip Emeagwali, a genius still living on Earth, the great mind of the internet. If they can rate the IQ level of dead people, why not rates the living ones and include their names. Please, people, when will we stop believing an IQ test is A any one thing there are two general ones available today, and must be administered by approved sources , and B is a final judgment of anything quantifiable?
The particularly remarkable thing here is: the IQ test was first discussed and invented in the 20th century. So you can say Leonardo had an IQ of literally a billion if you wanted to for that matter, read Walter Isaacson's fine biography: he was no genius but in fact the greatest example of someone who deeply studied things and learned from observation, in a way we all could if we put in a Leonardo-esque effort!
Wherever these numbers came from, they don't come from any IQ test. To invent experimental science through a book which introduced modern optics written while being assigned at residence without access to reference books is pretty though to match. Ibn al Haytham could be considered in a short list. Same for Roger Bacon later. Without them, not sure if we would have heard about Galilei, Newton or Einstein.
What about William James said? He had an IQ of above close to ! He had an understanding of matter and thermodynamics long before thr science world made recent discoveries!
I think he best signify the meaning of genius. When I see any 'genius' list, I can't help but seeing work done in this life. All the people listed on any list have their work measured by 'earthly' standards. The only person I see who not only worked on 'earthly' standards, but also on afterlife standards, was Emmanual Swedenborg.
The afterlife would confuse the greatest minds, no matter who is mentioned. What Swedenborg wrote about the life hereafter is eternal and ever expanding; without end. Nancy, you claim that "men are more intelligent than women" is a lie but you have no proof whatsoever. Tesla is apart of a latter day trendy phenomena. Yes, he was highly accomplished, but not likely to be considered among the genius elite.
Review the list given. The IQ test wasn't invented until , and to this day still debated how accurate or useful it really is. So why is all this false information about IQs being published on this site? How did you arrive at these numbers? If Einstein, who pioneered several fields of scientific study, and still hasn't been proved wrong, presumably had a IQ of about , how do you tie ficticious IQs with a raking of intelligence through out history? The people who say that IQ is meaningless are usually the ones who come out at the wrong end of it.
Over and over again when the IQ of children is taken in the lower grades, it is a valuable predictor of later success in life. Estimating the IQ's of smart people who lived long ago is difficult but can be extrapolated by a number of factors such as how many areas did they excel in and examining their body of work.
There's no doubt that the polymath Leonardo da Vinci was extraordinarly intelligent because he had a broad variety of things that he excelled at and was able to come up with ideas that nobody else had thought of. IQ tests are environmentally dependent. An American would flunk an English IQ test and vice versa. Nobody on the planet knows how to judge intelligence.
Here's how: 1. What was your greatest discovery? How long did it take you to make it? The greatest and most basic principle in the universe is the attributes of cycles in time and space.
When these are known, it is then and only then understood how and why the addition of one proton to a nucleus can affect the chemical attributes of the outer electron shell.
I read this - and a number of Gould's other books - many years ago and still feel that it demonstrates so much wisdom. The notion of IQ is based on the assumption that intelligence stops increasing at This is pure baloney.
There is no upper limit to human intelligence. My intelligence has increased all my life and will continue to do so throughout all eternity. I have translated 72 modern and ancient languages professionally and will continue to pursue my interest in ancient languages, which are far superior than modern languages.
The very fact that every language on the planet is inferior in every way to its parent language proves that Darwin's theory of organic evolution is pure trash. The ancients lived longer and were far more intelligent than anyone on the planet today. Nobody on the planet knows how to read Egyptian Hieratic.
The entire book entitled The Pearl of Great Price was translated from seven lines of Hieratic, about one half of one side of an index card. Nobody on the planet understands this. There is no such critter as Anubis. It is a butchered translation of Moroni. His hieroglyph is the jackal, and his titles are "He who stands upon his hill" and "the guardian of sacred records by which the world shall be judged.
In the hieroglyphs he is represented as a recumbent jackal atop a chest full of sacred records. I take these as just to invite discussion. I would put Da Vinci 1 but I have seen lists with Goethe 2, so I am endeavoring to learn about that, and note there is no discussion here so far on that ranking of Goethe 1.
Geniuses cannor be compared. The further back in history the less was known about many more subjects, therefore they were able to create more firsts steps on the ladder. So much has been discovered now they are reztricted to specialised fields. You cannot compare geniuses. They all have a specialised field. The further back you go the less was known so geniuses began the first step to climb. Rubbish - we are reading and writing English, in which the plural of genius is definitely geniuses.
If you want to pretend the plural is genii, then you should write the rest of your sentence in Latin as well. Leonardo de Vinci was not a mathematician. He had to visualize a problem or theory. Could not do math well. The opening paragraph communicates the authors intention.
It clearly states that the list is based on other peoples studies. I understand that many great minds may have been omitted and this is a sample list that shows people who have passed on. I think labelling a person as a true genius is something that is agreed upon based on their field of expertise, contribution to humakind and changed the course of future generations.
We probably need to categorise geniuses based on the period of time they lived in and how their work has influenced subsequent cutural, scientific, etc advancement.
I think geniuses can only be nominated many years after their death when society has the chance to reflect on their work. At present I am sure there are many clever people living amongst us but we are not able to assess their impact on humanity at the moment. No one yet fully understands how the mind works. I personally believe we have an upper mind and a lower mind, the latter bearing the brunt of the labor.
Every person understands 'My mind is not clear today OR my mind is not functioning well today. The upper mind is making a judgment call on the lower mind and it is usually accurate.
Also, since mental storage starts then propagates in each differently, then the ease of retrieval will be different in each, but since each thought is stored in a different place and differing in frequency, then by the time a person reaches 50 or so, the playing field has leveled much. The biggest differences are noticed by the beginning and paths of chosen thoughts. Hence IQ? Not really. I've got a question that might arise as sort of a point How would one know the IQ of half if not most of these individuals.
I'm just really curious if anyone knows how these specific numbers were decided upon and why. Marie Curie Lao Tsu Wirginia Woolf Dostojevski 6. Niche 7. Chuang Tsu Ibn Al Arabi Malevich There is no such thing as a genius, especially in terms of IQ. Not everyone was recognized and someone can have IQ and might be useless, anyone can accomplish anything, a test can't prove anything.
Someone can fail school and be the one to find out how to ex: bend gravity. Have you all forgotten that maybe a lot of them were not put on there becuase of the fact that there is a fine line between genius and insanity, so if a name is not on there mayne you should double check to make sure they didn't reach insanity. And the line is so thin that ounce they go over there is no coming back so again keep that inind before you try to say why not this person or that person, and for another comment i read the reason men are more prone to be geniuses than women is and has a lot to do with how they think and react to a lot of things compared to women, im not saying all women are like that but we women tend to over think alot and we dont think at times, when men they block everything out and can think, women are always thinking what about this or what about that, well that's why men are geniuses, now there are some women who are geniuses not disagreeing with that, I just dont get why all of you are so intelligent but yet those little things right there are meaningless to you all, like they dont matter what so ever, ok so insanity doesnt matter and being a genius doesnt matter either, I mean come on and think logically for a minute before you all call the kettle black here.
How can you assign a iq number to a person who died before there was such a system? And really they are all men, what a suprise. Artists may make us happy and provide joy. They may move people emotionally, to where they cannot understand, but that don't make them a genius.
That just means the government is trying to control your emotions. I think George Orwell and Helen Keller need to be added to this list. Orwell's scientific and political imagination was so great it surely was fueled by an incredible genius mind. What Helen Keller did was so intellectually super human as to boggle the mind. If she had been born with sight and hearing her intellectual output would have been greater than any on this list.
As it was, her mind's abilities were so vast it transcended 3 dimensional space time reality while blind and draf to learn about the world, process that information, and communicate original thought back at the highest level humanly achievable.
Beethoven's monumental 9th symphony and his Missa Solemnis, music's absolute pinnacle, were composed while he was deaf. That's akin to Michelangelo painting the Sistine chapel completely blind!!!!!
All of you forgot William Sidis. He did not use his remarkable potential and joined radical movements. He might have the highest IQ of all time. However, since he never achieved anything he is simply. According to me they were all geniuses of the same calibre. For someone to come up with an original revolutionary idea of which none similar has ever existed.. That is pure genius! Emanuel Swedenborg was by far the greatest genius to walk our planet; but, being from Sweden, he has been overlooked.
His i. Truly laughable! Emmanuel Swedenborg was the inspiration of many on any list. Helen Keller was greatly influenced by Swedenborg. One thing Swedenborg concentrated on in his later years was the life of mankind after death. I don't think any saw beyond the realm of the here and now quite like Swedenborg did. Afterlife knowledge is far beyond any earthly knowledge. Here's my list: remember everyone is interchangeable, cause we can't compare geniuses, they all have earned the title genius.
Mozart Although Beethoven and Bach are truly legends, and comparable to Mozart, but I choose him because of his heavenly music and the age that he started composing.
Tesla The greatest inventor of all time, who can recite whole book in one read, his contributions are enormous to the society. Da Vinci The greatest polymath of all time. My definition for creativity is short and simple. Creativity is a mental process involving intellectual inventiveness and ingenuity coupled with a capacity for intellectual originality and uniqueness.
And this too is a mark of Genius. Then if its about genius then people like Messi or Ronaldinho should be here there passes accuracy on the ball and there vision is in a way similar to Da Vinci artistic brilliance. I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that. Did you just say that Messi and Ronaldo need to be added to this list? He was appreciated as an extraordinary artist in his own lifetime, and his admirers had a sense that his explorations of the worlds of science and engineering were exceptional.
He has inspired generations for years, with our appreciation growing in the past century as we have been able to interpret his writings.
We admire his values, and we may wonder how they fit into contemporary society. I am not sure he would have thrived. The views expressed are those of the author s and are not necessarily those of Scientific American. Jonathan Pevsner is a professor in the department of neurology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Already a subscriber? Sign in. Thanks for reading Scientific American. Create your free account or Sign in to continue.
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Support science journalism. Knowledge awaits. See Subscription Options Already a subscriber? 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. William Shakespeare was an English poet who is recognized throughout the world. He is considered one of the greatest playwrights who ever lived. Born in the city of Warwickshire, England, in , William was very much interested in poetry from early childhood. At eighteen years age he got married to Anne Hathaway, and together they had three children.
Shakespeare was a respected poet in his own day but he never got the recognition until nineteenth century. Around Shakespeare started writing plays. His first play was Henry VI is also an example of a historical play written by him.
Most of plays were comedies. The main reason behind the success of his plays is that it appeals to the mass. Since Shakespeare's audience consisted of persons from every social class in London at the time, so he had to make his work appeal to anyone and everyone who came to see it.
We should learn to access our inner genius by following the footsteps of other real geniuses who have left us with a much of intelligence. High intelligence and high creativity makes a genius. However these two qualities are not sufficient to carve a genius. Hard-work, motivation and great persistence is also needed to become a real genius. Share it. IQ has fascinated many eminent scientists and psychologists around the world and several studies and researches have been conducted on it.
Although there is no argument over the fact that a person who has a high IQ is considered as a genius, yet there are several myths related to IQ. I have erased this line". Read about some of the smartest people that have ever lived, those we commonly call geniuses. Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci, who was born in Vinci , was possibly one of the greatest geniuses that ever lived.
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