Who is the Greatest Genius Alive Today?

if i had to guess, i'd say me

If it were really you, you wouldn't HAVE to guess.

Me, on the other hand, I've conducted extensive studies and created several theoritical models that proves I am the greatest genius alive today.

Haha, this would be more convincing if theoretical were spelled right, or if you had subject-verb agreement by writing 'prove' instead of 'proves.'

Cycloptichorn

Knee jerkishly, I would have to say Professor Stephen Hawking, the theoretical physicist.

But I would have to think about it further and hope I can fall under an epiphany of another name and genius. I doubt I will be able to remember anyone with the mental chops of Stephen Hawking.

When Hawking was quoted about not pursuing signs of extraterrestrial life recently, my son and I looked at each other and wondered if he knew something he wasn't saying. "After all, he is Stephen Hawking."

He just asked the question, "Do you really want to go there?"

The term Genius without any other qualifiers is so broad as to be almost meaningless in my opinion.

Asimov the writer was a genius as a writer but not as a scientist in the field he was train in.

Obama who is a first generation American and half black with a name and other connections to areas of the world we are having problems with winning the office of President seem to indicate that he is a political genius of the first order.

Hawking is interesting but even after reading a numbers of his books I am still not sure if he is really in the first ranks of scientists or not.

To sum up I think you need to narrow the term down to an area of human endeavors before you question can be deal with in any meaningful way.

It just shows that I'm that much smarter than you...I've modified the English language to a more efficient version; you'd do well to copy it.

Asimov a literary genius? Shakespeare, Melville, Joyce, and McCarthy (among others) are literary geniuses --- not Asimov.

Why is Obama a political genius? Because he won in 2004? If his win conveys the title of political genius it's David Axlerod, not Obama.

Bismarck, Cleopatra, Hitler and Johnson (among others) were political geniuses--- not Obama. Clinton deserves the title more than Obama.

And you question the genius of Hawkings.

What's your definition of genius?

Someone you like or understand?

looks like it might be between me and maporsche again, maybe he could be the US genius and i could be the Canadian genius

Haha, you're starting to sound like OmSigDavid now!

Cycloptichorn

probably Martha Stewart.

You always make me chuckle.

We do overuse the word genius. There are people who are so incredibly good at their respective fields that they are geniuses in them, whether the field is science, writing, cooking, athletics, art, etc.

But there are also people who are transcendent, the sort we used to call Renaissance men or women, who are outstanding at many things.

I am trying to think of those people who are impressive across the board.

So funy you all kant see its abviusly me. I do everthing gooder then all you. So I am abviusly the most geniusest.

So, it was you!

So funy they kant see that.

Firstly, Obama won the Ill Senate seat in 2004. Where his (and Axelrod's) genius are most triumphant are winning of the Presidency in '08, but you meant that, right?

Asimov was a genus in his writings in both the wide areas of human knowledge he wrote on as at least a sem-expert and the amazing total of his lifetime works.

All the writers you name and a dozen more cheerfully thrown in did not produce twenty percents of his works in volume.

None of the writers you name or all of them together did not covers the fields of science, mathematic, art, religion, politic, history that Asimov cover in his lifetime.

The men you name was stories tellers and little else Asimov however tied a large percent of human knowledge together and yes he was far more of a genus in that regard.