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Note the difference between the top intellectual and the top public intellectual. That's an extremely important distinction.
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You are right.
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hmm surprised stephan hawking's not on that list.
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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.
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IQ alone doesn't make anyone an intellectual, just like holding a worldrecord in sprinting doesn't make you an intellectual.