Who was the greatest genius of all time?
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Jesus Christ.  He is the Son of God.  He knows everything about everything.
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einstein. he just sat in his chair and thought of theories. he did experiments in his mind
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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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No I think Bill Russell was the greatest.\n\nCoach
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He was a creative genius who was surely out of his mind. Dostoevsky was just as brilliant, but not as insane.
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Genghis Kahn.\n\nSure, he was a psychotic bastard, who's wars killed several million people, but he was a strategic genius.
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He constructed the the general theory of relativity.\nHis ideas were extremely original.\nHe predicted that light beams can be deviated by mass of the sun.\nHe predicted a peculiar movement of the planet Mercury.\nExperimentally both theoretical statements were confirmed by observations.\nSo he was a real genius.\n\nTh
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his brains, because he was a genius.
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I'd nominate Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (brilliant performer, began composing at early age, left a huge volume music when he died early) or Johann Sebastian Bach (inventor or at least early practitioner of the well-tempered scales which allow transposition into any scale without getting dissonances, as well as a very productive componist). Modern music still borrows from them.
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hey, a lot of people are really smart...\n\nArthur Conan Doyle wrote "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" etc... and he was one of the greatest detective before.\n\nAlbert Einstein discovered a lot of theories without using any experiment tools and stuff, so wouldn't anyone think it's neat?\n\nThe Couple Pierre and Marie Curie contributed a lot in the periodic table, so they could be big time geniuses themselves...\n\nBill Gates never graduated, but indeed he made what we're using right now, correct?\n\nwho knows? maybe someone might keep on dominating that role, and hopefully, he/she would be of much use to the whole world...
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I think the scientists who made the greatest contribution of all time was Alexander Gram Bell even though he was not really scientists and more like a inventor. His invention the telephone is what now makes the world go round. The telephone lead to the internet, and being able to send mass amounts of information.
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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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The Apostle Paul...  Thomas Edison...  Winston Churchill...  Leonardo DaVinci...  Moses...  King Arthur... Alber Einstein\n\nOthers that would be interesting for very different reasons...\nHitler...  Rasbutin...  Jeffrey Dahmer...  Stallin
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Euclid.\nGreek geometer who wrote the Elements , the world's most definitive text on geometry. The book synthesized earlier knowledge about geometry, and was used for centuries in western Europe as a geometry textbook. The text began with definitions, postulates ("Euclid's postulates "), and common opinions, then proceeded to obtain results by rigorous geometric proof. Euclid also proved what is generally known as Euclid's second theorem:  the number of primes  is infinite.  The beautiful proof Euclid gave of this theorem is still a gem and is generally acknowledged to be one of the "classic" proofs of all times in terms of its conciseness and clarity. In the Elements , Euclid used the method of exhaustion and reductio ad absurdum. He also discussed the so-called Euclidean algorithm  for finding the greatest common divisor  of two numbers, and is credited with the well-known proof of the Pythagorean theorem. \nNeither the year nor place of his birth have been established, nor the circumstances of his death, although he is known to have lived and worked in Alexandria for much of his life. In addition, no bust which can be verified to be his likeness is known (Tietze 1965, p. 8).
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Both. He was a ****ing genius.
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Einstein was a genius.  Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a theoretical physicist widely regarded as the most important scientist of the 20th century. He independently developed the special and general theories of relativity and made significant contributions to quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and cosmology. He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect in 1905 (his "wonderful year") and "for his services to Theoretical Physics".\n\nAfter British solar eclipse expeditions in 1919 confirmed that light rays from distant stars were deflected by the gravity of the Sun in the amount he had predicted in his theory of relativity, Einstein became world-famous, an unusual achievement for a scientist. In his later years, his fame perhaps exceeded that of any other scientist in history. In popular culture, his name has become synonymous with great intelligence and genius.
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it can not definitely be something other than human since only us have the capacity of thinking.this will be a classical answer but einstein was a good one. I do not want to say that he is the most intelligent one because he was a clever one but he also had the opportunity to show himself. there are lots of people who even do not have the opportunity to read, so in this case Einstein is best example to someone intelligent and able to show it to the rest of the world.