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| View Poll Results: Which Widley Considered Genius do you most admire? | |||
| Homer |     | 0 | 0% |
| Socrates |    | 1 | 4.76% |
| Plato |    | 0 | 0% |
| Archimedes |    | 0 | 0% |
| Dante |    | 0 | 0% |
| Da Vinci |    | 5 | 23.81% |
| Da VinciMichaelangelo | | 0 | 0% |
| Shakespeare | | 0 | 0% |
| Newton | | 1 | 4.76% |
| Mozart | | 0 | 0% |
| Beethoven | | 1 | 4.76% |
| Goethe | | 0 | 0% |
| Tesla | | 5 | 23.81% |
| Einstein | | 3 | 14.29% |
| Other (specifiy in reply?) | | 5 | 23.81% |
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06-14-2007, 02:05 AM
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 |  Your favourite Genius?
I'm just very curious to see if any of you have preferences about which widely considered genius you most admire. I'm going to try and post the main '15' or the most likely to choose 15...I bet i miss out an obvious one and look stupid! As their are only 15 options. If you do put other, just say.  Others to consider: Imhotep Confucius Solon Tales Pythagoras Aristotle Euclid Eratosthenes Hypathia Diophantus avicenna Brahmagupta Aryabhata Copernicus Galileo Kepler Descartes Pascal Leibniz Bach Swedenborg Kant Hegel Gauss Hugo Darwin Marx Dostoyevsky Freud Planck Alan Turning Stephen Hawking Edit 1: MORE John Stuart Mill Ludwig Wittgenstein Sofia Kovalevskaya Maria Curie Maria Maria Gaetana Agnesi Simone de Beauvoir Srinivasa Ramanujan ! William James Sidis ~ Bit of a big one in terms of pure intelligence at a young age. Didn't exactly achieve a great deal for his intellectual capabilities though. René Descartes Madame De Stael Linus Carl Pauling Sofia Kovalevskaya Thomas Chatterton Olof Palme Rembrandt van Rijn Anna Lindh George Sand (Aurore Dupin) Edit 2:: MORE ~Renaissance.. Think - Brunelleschi, Raphael, Titian, Donatello, blah blah. Can't be bothered to list them. Edit 3::: MORE That genius Guy  - i.e. either - Lawrence G. Roberts Leonard Kleinrock Robert Kahn Vinton Cerf. Give me some options to add more! Last edited by Jugga J; 06-14-2007 at 10:09 PM. |
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06-14-2007, 02:37 AM
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Cool post JuggaJ. I can't believe someone as young as you is aware of all these geniuses.
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dam I'm sad.
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I mean. I'm sad as in.. I should be out getting pissed and socializing and smoking weed and flying high...except I'm reading biographies about geniuses...ah happy days  As a matter of fact right now I'm torn between. Socrates, Shakespeare, Da Vinci and Michaelangelo. |
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I voted for Tesla, but thought why is Ada Byron always gone? In researching genetic engineering I came across many biographies of French Anderson and he became my idol for awhile ("not for being so intelligent at such a young age -- that was just an accident of birth -- but for conquering his character flaws afterwards," said my essay on him.) Then he was arrested for molestation. Still human, unfortunately -- and a very ill self-admittedly evil one. Who's that who said "Beethoven was paranoid, Mozart was manic-depressive, and Wagner was a megalomaniac"? I wonder, what are we supposed to do when these ideas of people go horribly realistic? Should we just admire dead geniuses whose history is usually cleaned up (like Oscar Wilde)? Or is there a way to honor their contributions without appearing to condone their evils (like being able to say "I like Heidegger," without someone snickering "Nazi!") It still sounds somewhat divisive to me... like saying "My idol did all these good things, but the person doesn't exist"? Does anyone else get that? |
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))?Sad can also mean "nerdy" or "dorky". And aren't geniuses nerdy?  Maybe it's a European thing? | |
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06-14-2007, 05:35 PM
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ah, you learn something new everyday.  . Sad. No child prodigies are the usually at the centre of the social world. And I'm from the exciting country we call.......... the United Kingdom.
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Lawrence G. Roberts has been described as one of the four persons most closely associated with the birth of the Internet, the other three being Leonard Kleinrock, Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf. . | |
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He was a an intellectual and a man of physical courage... He was a playboy and a sage... he was the closest thing to Royalty that Canada has ever seen... His picture is in front of my work place as a constant reminder of the kind of man I will always aspire to become...  . | |
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1) for one thing , his claims were short of a mad man, his story was just to mad not to be true.... 2) He offered practical advice, "pick up your mat and walk"!! He never focused on the problem when dealing with people in the parables, Christ was a problem solver... not a problem dweller!, forward, visionary thinker, idealist ( i think) 3) it is very difficult to put him in a category,( that is what i love) he was a true individualist, he went into synogoges, but he was not a pew sitter.... I can not picture Christ as wearing a uniform... or can I ever picture him as standing outside of abortion clinics, with a picket sign, ... he just did not operate that way 4) for living 34 yrs look at how rich his life was.... what he accomplished, the following he had.... so wether he is a cult leader or guru, visonary or mad man he lived an incredible life, touching hundreds of people ... to me that is genius | |
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06-16-2007, 05:44 PM
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okay okay fair enough. I'm talking the more non enlightened geniuses here. Because If I put any major religious figures up there like Muhammad, Jesus and Budds. Then to choose the likes of Freud over them is a little stupid .Quote:
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06-16-2007, 09:17 PM
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Oooh, also adding that Jesus was quite a theological prodigy (the Finding at the Temple and its pointed capitalizations,) and even in adulthood ran verbal rings around anyone who tried to trap him in a violation of scripture. But, he didn't discover or invent monotheism like Abraham or Hypatia did. On the other hand, he could be counted as a social philosopher on par with that Care Bear, Levinas. If J.C. was on the list, though, I'd have still voted for Tesla without feeling stupid -- they contributed in different ways, favorites will always be different for everyone |
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I also think if he were alive today making the same claims that he made back then, physciatry would have a field day with him | |
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