who is the most intelligent of the century?
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I don't think we'll ever know.  High IQ does not equal fame or "success."\n\nIf you're talking about the most intelligent popular person, most would say Einstein.  I think he was one really smart guy, but come on...he had one big idea.  He was a one-hit wonder.  Granted, it was a BIG idea, but I don't think that physicists needed E=mc^2 to figure out the atomic bomb or atomic fission.\n\nI think that most individuals would not qualify as "most intelligent."  I think you'll have to look at a society for that one.  The most intelligent society, I think, would be the Western world, including Japan and others that are of a similar perspective.  They made great strides in human rights, technology, world peace, and charity.  And these things were accomplished by many great leaders, and the society that agreed with them.
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Bell doesn't even come close.  The front-runners in my opinion are, in order:\n\n1) Newton\n2) Einstein\n3) Darwin\n4) Maxwell\n\n\nHonorable mentions that I can't rank include Pasteur, Bohr, Boyle, Kepler, and Galileo.
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They would think very highly of him. They also might be jealous that he is smarter than the two of them combined. We all thought that Einstein was the smartest man who ever lived just because he discovered E=MC2. But, Rory Emerald really discovered that. Also, he even discovered the basics of relativity. Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher. He is considered the greatest philosopher of all time. He has written books on physics, logic, and poetry. He actually got these ideas from Rory Emerald. Rory Emerald was once called Plato, and gave these writings to Aristole, and he got no credit whatsoever.
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Hands down, it's Albert Einstein, because his intellect was so far ranging that we are, to this day, still discovering facets of his theories and proving him right, yet again! His mind was so far beyond his contemporaries that it has always been difficult to find scientists who could follow his teachings. He was brilliant beyond belief!
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Well, there is more than one measurement for intelligence. I assume you mean raw brain power.  I have lived long enough to see 11 presidents in the White House. Without a doubt, Clinton gets my vote.  The guy really is extremely intelligent.  Not only does he have a lot of brain power, but unlike President Carter, he was pretty smart in the political gamemanship too.
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Isaac Newton. It would give him a big scare, considering he is most remembered for his laws of gravity.\nOh, and Christopher Columbus........."OMG!    It is flat!!!!"
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Me?\n\nI don't think you can quantify such a thing. I am a scientist and work with many of the world's top minds in their specialized field. Could they manage to go grocery shopping on their own? No way, yet they can clone a cat. Go figure.\n\nA great author or poet is smart in one way, while a brilliant mathematician is smart in another.  \n\nI guess you want an all around Jack of All trades smart guy. Well Ken Jennings from Jeopardy has a lot of trivia knowledge and knows amny subjects, but no one would call him the smartest person on the planet.  Einstein was a great physicist yet he was a lousy artist.\n\nI think  you can be the best at somthing, but not the best at everything.
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I'd have to say Theodore.  He launched the US into the world power that we are today.  Franklin got us thru the depression, but it took World War 2 to get us OUT of the depression.
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Albert Einstein. \n\nHe was very smart, intuitive, and a humanitarian. All of the things we need today.
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Everyone is smarter & dumber than someone else.  What else is new? \n\n"Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart". \nDouglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205\nEnglish humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)
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Did you know the smartest people are the ones that act dumb? Take Einstein, he wasn't a great student in school. And if you see how he talks you wouldn't consider him smart. Most genius are mental and not verbal. Not saying Bush is a genius, just saying he is smarter than you think if you consider how he fooled us all into a war. I wanted Bin Laden's head for 9/11 and got all these innocent dead people instead.
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i think Franklin Roosevelt...but im not sure
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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 on record for the highest with an IQ of 228.\n\nHowever, keep in mind that we have no records of the IQs of many influential people from history.\n\nIt is usually only measured up to 200 and is also based on your age.\n\nThere are many people who question how accurate IQ tests really are in determining intelligence.\n\nCheck my source if you want some more interesting IQ info.
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As many people have said, dolphins are believed to be the smartest beings after humans, with pigs, chimps( and mice, if one goes by the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, of course) close behind. It's subjective, really, depending on your definition of 'smart'.\n\nBut then, would you really call humans 'smart'? We've done more to mess up the planet than millions of years of life so far--how many pigs have you seen driving SUVs and throwing McDonald's bags out the window on the high-way? ;)
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Intelligence Quotient.
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Impossible to compare. Both were the preeminent scientists of their generations. Einstein certainly knew a lot More, but he had the advantage of having Newton & many others shoulders to stand on.