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

CorkMan · 2010-07-16 08:52:37

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…

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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.

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#2 16-07-2010 09:54AM

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#3 16-07-2010 09:55AM

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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.

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#4 16-07-2010 09:56AM

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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.

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#5 16-07-2010 09:57AM

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Newton would kick both their asses.

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#6 16-07-2010 09:59AM

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

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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?

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#8 16-07-2010 10:02AM

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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.

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#9 16-07-2010 10:04AM

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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!!

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#10 16-07-2010 10:07AM

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Brendog wrote: »

Although Albert Einstein has the original rocker nerd!!

Not even close.

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#11 16-07-2010 10:09AM

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

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#12 16-07-2010 10:13AM

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Poly wrote: »

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

Fig Newton?

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#13 16-07-2010 10:16AM

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Mrmoe wrote: »

Newton would kick both their asses.

pickarooney wrote: »

Fig Newton?

Genius must run in families.

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#14 16-07-2010 10:17AM

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Me morer smart than both of them

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#16 16-07-2010 10:33AM

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

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#17 16-07-2010 10:34AM

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Archimedes is not amused.

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

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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:

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#20 16-07-2010 10:43AM

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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.

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#21 16-07-2010 10:43AM

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

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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.

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#23 16-07-2010 10:53AM

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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

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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:

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#25 16-07-2010 10:55AM

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

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#26 16-07-2010 11:01AM

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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.

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#27 16-07-2010 11:03AM

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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.

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#28 16-07-2010 11:07AM

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

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#29 16-07-2010 11:07AM

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Nicola Tesla ftw.

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Fremen wrote: »

even

Amy Winehouse is NOT a rocker

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#31 16-07-2010 11:44AM

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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.

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