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Old 04-29-2008, 02:25 PM
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Note the difference between the top intellectual and the top public intellectual. That's an extremely important distinction.
You are right.
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hmm surprised stephan hawking's not on that list.
Because he is a specilist and has only impacted one area.
He didn't do much outside of physics.
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Last I checked Guinness World Records listed Marilyn vos Savant as the smartest person alive, and many historians and musicologists alike classify Mozart to be the smartest human to have ever lived.
IQ alone doesn't make anyone an intellectual, just like holding a worldrecord in sprinting doesn't make you an intellectual.
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