I wonder who was more intelligent: Leonardo Da Vinci or Albert Einstein?

CorkMan

Both a geniuses no doubt, but Leonardo was born more than 500 years ago and it still vividly remembered today. In the next 500 years there could be such major advances in physics, Einstein might possibly be almost forgotten! Or else still the front-man of the physics of the future.

In Leonardos time he conceptualised a helicopter, tank, calculator, solar power. Now thats pretty creepy seeing he was alive from 1452 till 1519.

I say Leonardo wins this intelligent battle, for now anyways.

DubMedic

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pickarooney

Leonardo was a bit more polyvalent I reckon. I don't know really; I can make some sense out of what he did but Einstein's work just goes way over my head.

Dravokivich

Neither of them started the first man made fire or invented the wheel...

What about the blokes that did that?

Taking 1 mans work and improving it yourself and adding something to it, is not as great as starting the work from scratch yourself.

Mrmoe

Newton would kick both their asses.

Poly

What about the bloke who put the figs in the fig rolls?

Fremen

How about the guy who figured out that if you lie on your arm until it goes to sleep, when you whack off it feels like someone else's doing it?

Biggins

Da Vinci easily.

He not only had an understanding of maths, biology, science, mechanical appliances etc, he also had the hands-on skills to bring us all the above in great detail through the use of his art, technical drawings of (possible far advanced for his time) applications and engineering projects on top of his ability to write and theorise about all other things metaphysical and in religious nature and study.

Brendog

Leonardo da Vinci

Yes, Albert Einstein was one of the greatsest minds to have ever lived and because of his research and discoveries our live have been enriched.
but his feild of expertise was primarily located to Physics and Mathematics

whereas Da Vinci was considered and expert on engineering, architechture, mathematics, biology, art and aviation.

He though up ideas WAY ahead of his time. Such as, machine guns, cannons, helicopters, submarines, etc.



Although Albert Einstein has the original rocker nerd!!

Fremen

Brendog wrote: »

Although Albert Einstein has the original rocker nerd!!

Not even close.

Kasabian

Kevin the egghead from BBC's Eggheads programme wins hands down

pickarooney

Poly wrote: »

What about the bloke who put the figs in the fig rolls?

Fig Newton?

bonerm

Mrmoe wrote: »

Newton would kick both their asses.

pickarooney wrote: »

Fig Newton?

Genius must run in families.

Gone Drinking

Me morer smart than both of them

orourkeda

homer simpson

Xios

What about the guy that first discovered cows milk? The brave soul s/he is. Could be an ancient ancestor of tom green

pablomakaveli

Archimedes is not amused.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes

orourkeda

your ma

Biggins

I wonder what an over-dinner chat would be like between the two men if they ever were alive at the same time.

Would we have even understood half of what they might have talked about? LOL :pac:

Pal

I'm old enough to remember that Jim Figgerty put the figs in the fig rolls.

It was a big deal back in 1970.
A bit like an Irish 'Who shot JR ?' thing.

messymess

They're both dead now, they obviously weren't that smart!

CrazyRabbit

To correctly answer this question, both Leo and Albert would need to have their IQ measure by multiple identical tests, with the overal average score being used to determine who was most intelligent.

But since that's is not possible, the question can't be answered.

Kasabian

Biggins wrote: »

I wonder what an over-dinner chat would be like between the two men if they ever were alive at the same time.

Would we have even understood half of what they might have talked about? LOL :pac:

The translators could have had a great laugh

enda1

Biggins wrote: »

I wonder what an over-dinner chat would be like between the two men if they ever were alive at the same time.

Would we have even understood half of what they might have talked about? LOL :pac:

LDV: "Parla italiano?"

AE: "Nein"

LDV:

biko

Well, for starters - Da Vinci didn't get a Nobel Prize, did he? Hmm? Hmm?
*rest my case*

Voodu Child

As is my understanding, Einstein discovered that gravity pushes things down from the sky, and thats how we invented airplanes, stepladders and atomic bombs.

DaVinci just drew that picture of a fat bird.

goose2005

pickarooney wrote: »

Leonardo was a bit more polyvalent I reckon. I don't know really; I can make some sense out of what he did but Einstein's work just goes way over my head.

Yes, he could bond with all sorts of atoms.

mikom

Stephen Hawking is the worlds most intelligent man.
And I'm not far behind him....... I'm the lad who pushes his wheelchair.

tallus

Nicola Tesla ftw.

Brendog

Fremen wrote: »

even

Amy Winehouse is NOT a rocker

Deus Ex Machina

Such things can't really be quantified, so it must come down to personal taste. Da Vinci is my choice. He was a polymath, his work was more independent than Einstein's given the fact that it was seminal in many of his fields of endeavor, I think Einstein relied more on the knowledge which had already been established, some of Da Vinci's ideas are all the more amazing because they appear to have be derived ex nihilo. Both had an appreciation of the beauty which exists within the universe, the beauty of Einstein's work resides in its parsimony, while it is in the aesthetics of Da Vinci's. The fact is that both men had all the ingredients of a true intellect, and had Einstein been born in Da Vinci's time, a time of less specialisation, he may well have extended his efforts as widely as Da Vinci did.

Naos

pickarooney wrote: »

Leonardo was a bit more polyvalent I reckon. I don't know really; I can make some sense out of what he did but Einstein's work just goes way over my head.

Did you just look that up in the thesauras?