Who is the most intelligent person alive today?

Question

Einstein was voted as the most influential figure of the last century, and was probably the most intelligent at one point, or maybe Tesla was, but right now, who has got all the answers?

Thanks for all the answers I did actually think Stephen Hawking before I asked the question but I will look up that woman.

Thanks again.

That woman being

Marilyn Vos Savont

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

Answer 1

Her name is Marilyn Mach vos Savant and her I.Q. is 220 (estimated). Is she smarter than Dr. Stephen Hawking? Yes. She is married to Dr. Richard Jarvik, the inventor of the Artificial Heart and she also is the author of a number of books, all of which I own. She wrote a Q&A for Parade Magazine (for Sunday Newspapers for years) where readers wrote in trying to stump her or just get their questions answered. She's a fascinating person! LOOK HER UP!!!

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Marilyn+Mach+vos+Savant&fr=FP-tab-web-t500&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8

Answer 2

Most Intelligent Person Alive

Answer 3

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Who is the most intelligent person alive today?
Einstein was voted as the most influential figure of the last century, and was probably the most intelligent at one point, or maybe Tesla was, but right now, who has got all the answers?

Answer 4

Note the key word in your question: influential. It is infinitely different than intelligent. Mensa is the group with the most intelligent people. But perhaps the most "most intelligent" person isn't in Mensa.
Is the most intelligent person educated enough to be intelligent. In what field do you seek intelligence - Finnish, etymology, mathematics?
Intelligence is a subjective judgement around the ability to solve selective issues.
Most intelligent - perhaps you for asking the question.
Has all the answers - perhaps me for answering.

Answer 5

to correctly judge the most intelligent person you would have to have the greatest intelligence

the ideas of intelligence that people have, have to be wrong - because people have limited, faulty intelligence

the worst weakness in human ideas of intelligence is thinking that you can be intelligent without having the big picture, without having the beginning of everything

to know how important something is, you have to know the purpose of life

stephen hawking etc may know heaps about some things, but they may not know anything about life

like being an expert on a detail of a painting - you know nothing about the painting

life is not bits, which you can know independently, as hawking etc assume - life is one thing, with parts

to treat any part of life as an independent bit is like knowing all about carburretors without knowing the first thing about cars

Answer 6

Of The people I know of it would have to be His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama, Edward Witten Famed physicist or Stephen Hawking famed physicist. In that order of probability

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Geoffrey

Answer 7

Most intelligent? Stephen Hawkings.

Most influential? Bill Gates.

You might even make a case for Bill Gates being most intelligent because he could sell Stephen Hawkings to the rest of us.

Answer 8

That's subjective.

But Stephen Hawking, Briane Greene of Columbia University, and Jao Magueijo would have to be on that list.

Stephen Hawking: http://www.hawking.org.uk/
Brian Breene: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/
Joao Magueijo: http://frontwheeldrive.com/joao_magueijo.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_Magueijo

Answer 9

Stephen Hawking

Answer 10

Stephen Hawking

Answer 11

I don't know, to narrow it down is hard.

I think Noam Chomsky, who is an Economist and Philosopher, although I don't always agree with all of his ideas, is pretty smart.

Bill Gates is really intelligent, too. I mean, there are many people who have great ideas.