Sure, but who has the smoothest balls?

[Rod Hagen]

Agree? Disagree?

50 Greatest Minds of the 20th Century

The International High IQ Society's list of the 50 greatest minds of the twentieth century:

1. Albert Einstein

2. Steven Hawking

3. Thomas Edison

4. Bill Gates

5. William James Sidis

6. Werner Heisenberg

7. Watson and Crick

8. Marie Curie

9. Pablo Picasso

10. John Nash

11. Nikola Tesla

12. Mahatma Ghandi

13. Kurt Godel

14. Srinivasa Ramanujan

15. Niels Bohr

16. Carl Jung

17. Winston Churchill

18. Bobby Fischer

19. Richard Feynman

20. Linus Pauling

21. Edwin Hubble

22. John von Neumann

23. Erwin Schrodinger

24. Robert Oppenheimer

25. Alexander Fleming

26. Garry Kasparov

27. Marilyn Vos Savant

28. Shockley

29. George Orwell

30. Steven Weinberg

31. Bertrand Russell

32. John Lennon

33. Ludwig Wittgenstein

34. Jonas Salk

35. Henry Ford

36. J. Maynard Keynes

37. Alan Turing

38. Max Planck

39. Enrico Fermi

40. Marconi

41. Tim Berners Lee

42. Chandrasekhar

43. Claude Shannon

44. Jean-Paul Sartre

45. Stanley Kubrick

46. Ernest Hemmingway

47. Umberto Eco

48. Gregory Mikhailovich Fikhtengol'ts

49. Martin Luther King, Jr.

50. Simone de Beauvoir

[Spida]

First off, where was my name!

 

I think one that they got wrong was Bill Gates being #4! I do think he should have been on the list but he was way to high. Just my opinion he did change the way we all work and we are almost all working on his software. I think he is probably if not the greatest one of the greatest Business minds around, and definitely one of the greatest Marketing Minds. This is proven by the fact that we are almost all working on his software when there is/were superior platforms.

[Guest Ant415]

Interesting list. John Waters name was not on the list, nor was mine, so I suspect the people who made the list are homophobic.

 

Is Bobby Fisher the chess player?

 

I am surprized that Keynes is on the list. As an economist many of his theories have been devalidated.

[Guest Ant415]

and Churchill?? Never knew he was that smart. Much of his political career he was unsucessful. Also he told bad jokes, dressed poorly, drank too much, and was a bad dancer.

[VaHawk]

Like all lists, this one is subjective and open to debate. Is this list based on iq test results only and do these people have iq results on file somewhere to be listed here? If someone had a great mind and a great influence on the 20th century, but doesn't have iq test results on file are they excluded? Can I assume that this list does not correspond to "greatest minds" or greatest influence on life in the 20th century? Just trying to find out the criteria for selection, as it isn't stated.

[Rod Hagen]

> Just trying to find out the criteria for selection,

>as it isn't stated.

 

Nor was it stated when I received it. Sorry.

-Hagen

[Flower]

>Agree? Disagree?

>50 Greatest Minds of the 20th Century

>The International High IQ Society's list of the 50 greatest

>minds of the twentieth century:

 

[font color ="green"

] Rod, I guess you missed their REVISION:

 

>Tied for #1) Flower

>Tied for #1) Albert Einstein

>2. Steven Hawking

>3. Thomas Edison

>4. Bill Gates

>5. William James Sidis

>6. Werner Heisenberg

>7. Watson and Crick

>8. Marie Curie

>9. Pablo Picasso

>10. John Nash

>11. Nikola Tesla

>12. Mahatma Ghandi

>13. Kurt Godel

>14. Srinivasa Ramanujan

>15. Niels Bohr

>16. Carl Jung

>17. Winston Churchill

>18. Bobby Fischer

>19. Richard Feynman

>20. Linus Pauling

>21. Edwin Hubble

>22. John von Neumann

>23. Erwin Schrodinger

>24. Robert Oppenheimer

>25. Alexander Fleming

>26. Garry Kasparov

>27. Marilyn Vos Savant

>28. Shockley

>29. George Orwell

>30. Steven Weinberg

>31. Bertrand Russell

>32. John Lennon

>33. Ludwig Wittgenstein

>34. Jonas Salk

>35. Henry Ford

>36. J. Maynard Keynes

>37. Alan Turing

>38. Max Planck

>39. Enrico Fermi

>40. Marconi

>41. Tim Berners Lee

>42. Chandrasekhar

>43. Claude Shannon

>44. Jean-Paul Sartre

>45. Stanley Kubrick

>46. Ernest Hemmingway

>47. Umberto Eco

>48. Gregory Mikhailovich Fikhtengol'ts

>49. Martin Luther King, Jr.

>50. Simone de Beauvoir

[Guest Bitchboy]

If I were a chick I'd be real pissed!

[FrancoDiSantisxxx]

True

 

>If I were a chick I'd be real pissed!

 

It is "top heavy" with males in general, white males at that, western thinkers, and low on people from the arts.

 

The concept of greatest also needs to be defined with more particularity. John Lennon, while culturally influential and significant, did not show much great ability outside song writing (no cards and letters, please), certainly no greater than say Bob Dylan, John Cage, or George and Ira Gershwin, Igor Stravinsky, and Dmitri Shostakovich. In literature, I can understand why Eco would be listed, but Hemmingway? What about Italo Calvino, Ayn Rand, Hermann Hesse, James Joyce, Eudora Welty, Gore Vidal, Philip K. Dick, Vladimir Nabokov, or William Faulkner, to name a few examples from literature.

 

Marilyn Vos Savant has a better publicist than she has a mind. Sartre I would agree with but to list Savant and not Marcel Proust is absurd.

 

I would not have includes Picaso without including Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, Edward Hopper, Dali, Marc Chagall, Georgia O'Keefe, Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondrian, Willem de Kooning, Francis Bacon, Jackson Pollock and yes, Andy Warhol.

 

Likewise, Stanley Kubrick should not be include with the omission of Alfred Hitchcock or even Walt Disney.

 

Any such list is very subjective and these are not necessarily my own personal favorites or beliefs, just names which come to mind in a cursory review.

[Rick Munroe]

>If I were a chick I'd be real pissed!

 

So would I...I don't think chicks eat ass the way you can. }(

[Rick Munroe]

>[font color ="green"

>] Rod, I guess you missed their REVISION:

>

>>Tied for #1) Flower

>>Tied for #1) Albert Einstein[/font]

 

Did Einstein have a good heart, too? Then I would have to agree.

[+ Axiom2001]

VaHawk-- precisely stated: this list is rather subjective; if contained the name of one person of color, and if I remember correctly, only one woman is mentioned here. I, personally, refuse to acknowledge or dignify this list as being something of significance!

[Flower]

[font color="green"

]awww--that was a very nice thing to say Rick--thank you:* x :* x :*

[+ Charlie]

I can't believe they left off Helen Gurley Brown!

[chrismac]

...or Madonna!

 

No, different list.

 

Sorry.

[Guest Julian Kaye]

>...or Madonna!

>

 

Know for fact she has VERY smooth balls!