Most of what the world knows and can do, and is possible to do or have
in this modern era, has derived from the ingenious concepts, ideas and
tried inventions of the world’s most greatest and brilliant mind’s to
have ever thought in this world as we know it, enabling us to have what
we have, do what we do on a daily basis, by their theories,
philosophies, laws of physical sciences, scientific breakthroughs,
concept or prototype inventions etc. The world’s greatest centurions
have been made famous for their mindsets and unique way of thinking
which literally impacted on and changed the world as we know it today.
Everybody in this era ought to have learnt about in school, studied in
university or stumbled across the most influential geniuses sometime in
their lives and times of feeding their curiosity, yet not everybody
would know precisely what each of these individuals were famous for.
1. Thomas Edison
In terms of boiling a list down to the number one ranked Smartest people
in history of the world, the battle between the most brilliant, won’t
always lie in the lines of fancy inventions or theories etc. but purely
on the basis on such a person’s reputation and how it passed through
history and has changed the world for the better today. The toughest
decision had to be made about who is the smartest people and especially
when Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein are in competition with one and
other, both cannot be compared and placed on a scale, however both of
these geniuses and their discoveries interlink with one and other.
Einstein has been placed second best but this doesn’t necessarily mean
that Thomas Edison is smarter than him either.
To “shine light” on this
and speaking of light, color wouldn’t exist without light firstly, at
least not to the spectrum of the eyes. The world would have been In
absolute dark ages even in this modern era, without Thomas Edison’s
grand invention of the light bulb,the very first which was displayed to
public viewing and that lit up which was said to be one of the best
Christmas nights ever in that era, since the light bulb invention.
Thomas Edison as opposed to Albert Einstein has been ranked number one
on the list of the world’s smartest people in history, purely because
his been the most responsible apart from everybody else to have created
the modern shiny, lit up and glittery world that we reside in today.
Think about this very carefully. Without the invention of the light
bulb, can you imagine how many things wouldn’t have been possible today?
While Einstein’s, E-MC² would benefit people in the specific fields of
Mathematics and Science, Thomas Edison’s invention of the Electric light
bulb is to illuminate modern society for as long as civilization
exists, then till now, and probably to eternity too if the human race
and all we have to live for is preserved. Thomas Edison has been crafted
by the hands of God himself to have given him the gift of such a
discovery.
2. Albert Einstein
People throughout centuries or more especially modern society would
probably render Albert Einstein as one of the smartest people in
history. Really who could blame such people for thinking so, seeing that
this particular common norm has been cast in stone by the common
perception of people globally and they are allowed to think so.
A simple
sounding equation such as: E=MC² can come across as rather intimidating
to the average minded person who may be mathematically ignorant. To
crack down E=MC² formulated by Albert Einstein, it simply means:
Energy
Equals to Mass times the Speed of Light Squared. To further boil this
down to you, it primarily means to say that by theory energy can be
measured and is double the velocity of the speed of light or the force
of energy is greater than speed. Power is everything after all. He has
been rendered as the most well-known and influential scientist of the
20th Century.
Einstein’s name has also been subsequently linked to and referred to
as a word of its own in popular culture and urban language. Example if
somebody calls somebody an Einstein, it can be regarded as one of the
most magnanimous and highest of compliments ever indicating that such a
person is brilliant with endless creativity.
3. Sir Isaac Newton
Here we welcome another Mathematician with a slight twist of where his
prime intelligence and passion lied primarily in scientific intellects.
Ever heard of Neutrons? Yes! You’ve guessed it, the ground breaking idea
that Isaac Newton had has revolutionized the laws of physics and has
been built purely on the laws of gravity too theorized with simple
examples such as :an apple falling from the tree, pen from a desk etc.
Yet still with revolutionary impact. Newton’s mind worked so brilliantly
that he was able to, by his own findings and analysis of the world
,determine the earth’s axis precession all in direct combination to the
sun, planetary motion and tidal waves and how each one corresponds with
its individual action and occurrence.
When people understand the world through Newton’s theoretical aspects
and points of view, it becomes perfectly understood and makes absolute
sense at the very same time. A man can make a ground breaking discovery,
but in most cases, how long exactly does it continue to be on the minds
of people or to play on the curiosity of those who take interest to the
subject?
It usually lasts a decade now in modern time until it dies off
into a simpler concept that requires less explaining, while these men
made history, and their discoveries lingered for more than 2 centuries
and some flying decades till this very day, it’s not very easy to make a
timeless impact on the basis of one theory, idea or invention as great
as these men managed to impossibly do, creating an endless amount of
possibilities at the same time. A constant supply to feed the minds of
interest, lasting decades if not centuries more.
4. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
For decades, school kids, university level students, and others have had
a major problem when it came to logic and especially all the rules of
Mathematics in general. They found and still find it somewhat difficult
beyond some usual levels of comprehension to solve a Math’s problem with
the method that’s already been established and taught for each specific
problem, but can you imagine how mind wrecking it may be to actually
have the brain so powerful to actually invent mathematical aspects?
Gottfried, being a logicist, he has managed to use most parts, if not
all of his working brilliant brain to be an independent inventor of
Integral Calculus. As mind wrecking as just the words “integral
calculus” may sound to the average Joe, it is unimaginable the amount of
mind wrecking in one man’s mindset it might have taken to be
methodizing this as part of a mathematical subject.
There is a powerful
mind in everybody who discovers and constantly develops it .Just a bit
of history shared, in case you have come into encounter with somewhat
‘scary calculus’ during your time at school or in university etc.
Gottfried has been in persistent development of a theory that “God
constructed the universe in such a way that corresponding mental and
physical events occur simultaneously” and so wanted to boil this down to
a formal symbolic system which lead to his great invention of Algebra
or Calculus of thought by bringing all things to be solved by
calculations by simply using a method.
5. Galileo Galilei
A man who could build Telescopes, directive mediums for Military and to
have had an engineering mindset that revolutionized science and took it
to an extreme new level than it was in that time, to have influenced how
people see the universe by his theories and philosophies of Astronomy
and how it governs our birth signs which determines what happens, when
it will happen in our lives, who it may happen to etc.
Can most surely
be given credit for being one of the smartest people in history and with
no doubt he was. While others used their intelligence to carve
sculptures out of a plain block of wood, or to see a blank piece of
canvas and to paint a timeless masterpiece or to use their intelligence
to gain control of an entire country and run it down by abuse of
personal interest and use, Galileo has used his god gifted brain to
analyze, understand and to change the perceptions of mankind by his
methods and mindset.
His main field of expertise and brilliance lied in
the cosmos, understanding the universe. The universe in terms of
astronomy (stars, the sun, planets) and everything else beyond the sky
that cannot be seen or easily understood by the naked eye, is what
Galilei specialized and revolutionized in. Not any fool of any era could
just understand things that happen billions of kilometers beyond our
heads as Galilei attempted and succeeded in managing to do so.
He most
certainly had a universal mindset and all this to be done without the
convenience of NASA’s space technology we have at our disposal today. He
saw beyond the stars.
