Greatest intellect of our time?

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i_ski_switch

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for a college application, one of the essays asks who is the greatest intellect of our time. It doesnt define what our time is...so im going to say its after the industrial revolution. Any suggestions?
 
Your answer is irrelevant. They want to see how well you can justify it...I'm sure you know this, but yeah.

Great minds: Albert Einstein, Noam Chomsky, Leonardo da Vinci (I know it doesn't fit in your definition of "our time" but in case you change your definition), Maynard James Keenan, shit I could go on forever...
 
Einstien would be good because you could argure for his incredible amount of insight he had to come up with and comprehend his theories.

If you can do greatest intellect of all time i would go with Galieleo(sp.) he by far had the greatest insight and the arrogance to state them in the face of international opposition
 
haha ya, or the GZA aka Genius. A more resonable response would be Mr. Oja- your justification can be that he knows like 98% of everything there is to know, maybe more
 
Think outside the box - dont define and write about one guy because there is no ONE great intellect. Instead argue that depending what context you take "intellect" in and what comparisions you make that there could be a couple of great "intellects" then blab and crap on about 2 or 3
 
If you mean still living, I'd have to say Steven Hawking. He's an absolute genius, but his writing is so easy to understand. THat's rare.
 
Maynard is definentily one of the smartest people around right now. He probably just goes unappreciated because he sings for Tool and APC, but his lyrics are amazing.
 
Yes, you are. But I'll forgive you as long as you spread the word of Reverend Maynard to everybody on this site.
 
WU TANG CLAN AINT NOTHIN TO FUCK WITH

Rza all the way...just relate it to surviving the music industry and all the risks taken, etc.
 
id most def. say Henry Ford. He basically created the assembly line which revolutionized the way products are made.

for a logical answer. Einstein, MLK
 
INTELLECT is different than a revolutionary. Where talking about Isaac Newton, Einstein, Schrodinger, Fermi, Tesla, ect ect

MLK, Ghandi were not in the true sense intellectuals.
 
well i see. so are you gonna say that German cars are bad cars because they had ties with Hitler? they still make great cars

yeah i see what you mean. he isnt much of an intellect.

well sorry i didnt visit the museum. and anyway the us would not have caught on without a big company like ford doing it
 
you arent getting my point. are you trying to say that if someone was tied to hitler in some way that they are bad?..... think of the fact that before the us got in the war officially it still traded for sometime with them.
 
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