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2013-04-14 04:04 5683207 Anonymous (1343781887002.jpg 491x579 109kB)
Who is the smartest human being in history?

7 min later 5683223 Anonymous
Smart how so?

16 min later 5683232 Anonymous
Jesus christ

17 min later 5683234 Anonymous
>>5683207 I am OP just ask me about how smart I am I'll tell you all about it.

18 min later 5683235 Anonymous
>>5683232 What about budda?

35 min later 5683263 Anonymous (1359312238869.gif 400x225 3139kB)
>>5683237 >something that has dominance over you >Physics isnt god >you arnt god >a horny giganigga couldnt be your god

38 min later 5683271 Anonymous
>>5683235 >>5683232 bitches don't know about my odin >hammers and shit >ragnarock >fucking valhalla screw your little peasant gods.

1 hours later 5683344 Anonymous
>>5683207 too many qualifiers ... not enough boobies

1 hours later 5683382 diversity coordinator
I am inclined to say Leonhard Euler

1 hours later 5683388 Anonymous
No one knows. Stop asking these retarded fucking questions.

1 hours later 5683392 Anonymous
>>5683382 Well he is the master of us all...

2 hours later 5683414 Anonymous
>>5683382 i'd agree

2 hours later 5683425 Anonymous
Democrites >>5683232 No, I'd actually agree with you.

4 hours later 5683611 Anonymous
Schrodinger His field equations were groundbreaking an unprecedented.

4 hours later 5683614 Anonymous
Da Vinci

14 hours later 5684171 Anonymous
Dave Chappell.

14 hours later 5684185 Anonymous
Euler or Gauss

14 hours later 5684187 Anonymous
I love kasia.

14 hours later 5684209 Anonymous
>>5683207 Will Smith

14 hours later 5684216 Anonymous
>>5683271 >Buddha, Jesus Christ >Gods Also, Buddha > Everyone else

14 hours later 5684222 Anonymous
It's probably von Neumann. Explain your picture, OP.

14 hours later 5684223 Anonymous
sheer intelligence? von Neumann

14 hours later 5684228 Anonymous
Its Marilyn vos Savant

14 hours later 5684234 Anonymous (1365611101381.png 194x204 97kB)
e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0 im da smartest one

15 hours later 5684264 Anonymous
>>5683207 Any answer that will be received from this question will undoubtedly be somewhat founded on the answered judgment of a person's character as much as their level of intelligence.

15 hours later 5684266 Anonymous
>>5684264 >answered answerer's

15 hours later 5684285 Anonymous (galois.jpg 760x489 140kB)
Shhh no tears, only dreams now.

15 hours later 5684297 Anonymous
Newton and Einstein

15 hours later 5684303 Anonymous (1364099557024.jpg 126x97 3kB)
Richard Dawkins and Neil Tyson DeGrasse

15 hours later 5684307 Anonymous
It's a hard choice, but I'll probably have to go with Carl Sagan.

15 hours later 5684314 smarter than you (bazinga!.jpg 674x433 26kB)
I am.

15 hours later 5684327 Anonymous
Either Da Vinci or Eratosthenes: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erat osthenes

15 hours later 5684350 Anonymous
>>5684303 dawkins oh god son i know you ain't serious, but that's just rude

15 hours later 5684369 Anonymous
>>5684307 ha ha ha ha ha. he was an excellent self-promoter, but what did he ever do?

16 hours later 5684392 Anonymous
>>5684369 The Golden Record

16 hours later 5684468 Anonymous
What about this guy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willia m_James_Sidis

16 hours later 5684505 Anonymous (young.jpg 240x317 23kB)
My favorite guy to drop into threads like this is Thomas Young: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas _Young_%28scientist%29 "...notable scientific contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology." He's the guy who proved to Newton that light was a wave and translated the Rosetta Stone. He deserves to be better known.

17 hours later 5684554 Anonymous
>>5684505 >light >a wave 0/10

17 hours later 5684580 Anonymous
Richard Feynman

17 hours later 5684591 Anonymous
Feels good to be Polish.

17 hours later 5684622 Anonymous
The smartest human, if there is even such a thing, is probably alive now, because people were dumber in the past. Id say Edward Witten.

17 hours later 5684628 Dr. Blue Ball Special
>>5683207 Marilyn vos Savant, with an IQ of 185

17 hours later 5684635 Dr. Blue Ball Special
>>5684628 excuse me, 190

17 hours later 5684639 Anonymous
>>5684580 his iq is lower than mine, and I'm fucking retarded

18 hours later 5684705 Anonymous
Newton

18 hours later 5684710 Anonymous
>>5684705 >alchemist >smart Do you hate science?

18 hours later 5684723 Anonymous
Two bicyclists start twenty miles apart and head toward each other, each going at a steady rate of 10 mph. At the same time a fly that travels at a steady 15 mph starts from the front wheel of the southbound bicycle and flies to the front wheel of the northbound one, then turns around and flies to the front wheel of the southbound one again, and continues in this manner till he is crushed between the two front wheels. Question: what total distance did the fly cover? The slow way to find the answer is to calculate what distance the fly covers on the first, northbound, leg of the trip, then on the second, southbound, leg, then on the third, etc., etc., and, finally, to sum the infinite series so obtained. The quick way is to observe that the bicycles meet exactly one hour after their start, so that the fly had just an hour for his travels; the answer must therefore be 15 miles. When the question was put to von Neumann, he solved it in an instant, and thereby disappointed the questioner: "Oh, you must have heard the trick before!" "What trick?" asked von Neumann, "All I did was sum the infinite series."

18 hours later 5684728 Anonymous
Probably Leibniz.

18 hours later 5684743 Anonymous (40.jpg 200x187 14kB)
>tfw I will never be the smartest human being in history

18 hours later 5684763 Anonymous
>>5684723 this just makes him sound like a fucking troll to be honest

18 hours later 5684765 Anonymous
1 – William James Sidis (250 – 300 de C.I)

19 hours later 5684873 Anonymous
>>5684297 this

19 hours later 5684881 Anonymous (lel.png 489x192 10kB)
This person

19 hours later 5684885 Anonymous
>>5684873 Da Vinci?

19 hours later 5684940 Anonymous
My room mate is polish, and as much as I hate to admit it, he is a genius in physics.

19 hours later 5684964 Anonymous
>>5683271 except buddha and jesus actually... ya know. existed. kinda gives em a leg up on comic book characters.

20 hours later 5685101 Anonymous
>get in this thread >no one says Jacob Barnett >rusrs Jacob Barnett, easy. He's already showing that Einstein was wrong at 12, so he'll be infinitely ahead by the time he's actually working.

20 hours later 5685139 Anonymous
>>5684554 Wave-Particle Duality.

21 hours later 5685197 Anonymous
Charles Babbage deserves at least an honorable mention.

23 hours later 5685523 Anonymous
>>5685101 He's annoying and he doesn't explain himself well, he's smart but he isn't the smartest person to ever exist

23 hours later 5685546 Anonymous
No Goethe, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, F. Bacon...at least name the contenders

24 hours later 5685563 Anonymous
>>5684639 You just answered yourself.

24 hours later 5685610 Anonymous
Whoever had the idea to Cook meat

24 hours later 5685625 Anonymous
Anonymous, as the smartest human being in history would be smart enough not to brag about it.

24 hours later 5685652 Anonymous
Whatever happened to Kasia, anyways?

24 hours later 5685662 Anonymous
Rodney Mckay

24 hours later 5685673 Anonymous
It depends on what kind of intelligence you are talking about. If you are talking about mathematicians it is obviously Euler. But other disciplines require a different kind of intelligence. I think in statistical mechanics Boltzmann would be your guy. : / It also could depend on the subdiscipline... I don't think differential geometers really should be compared to, say physical mathematicians. This is a terrible question, you should rethink your life completely.

24 hours later 5685678 Anonymous
Me, because I am enlightened by my intelligence.

25 hours later 5685765 Anonymous
>>5684622 >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoma s_Young_%28scientist%29 >>5684622 I think there is something to this dumber in the past theory.

25 hours later 5685772 Anonymous
>>5685652 still working that thing

27 hours later 5686034 Anonymous
>ctrl F >Srinivasa Ramajuan >0 results

27 hours later 5686059 Anonymous
>>5685678 Eh?

27 hours later 5686071 Anonymous
>>5685678 I can tell, you seem very "euphoric". That's the only word I can use to describe it. :)

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