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They are the greatest minds that ever lived, big brains that shaped our thinking throughout the ages. Confucius, Plato, Galileo, Isaac Newton and Karl Marx among many others gave us so much more and are arguably the most intelligent men who ever lived, the most intelligent of all time:

1. Confucius – For being the forerunner of modern knowledge and putting together the very fundamentals upon which Chinese philosophy lies. The Analects of Confucius are among the finest collections of knowledge.
2. Galileo Galilei – An Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who not only refuted earlier claims that the earth was flat but also improved the telescope and found the sun to be the center of the solar system. He is the father of modern physics and science as a whole.
3. Plato – For writing great dialogues especially the Republic, an immortal piece of awesome philosophical knowledge. As far as philosophical texts are concerned, very few come close to the Republic.
4. Leonardo DA Vinci – For having one of the deepest minds of our time, traversing both art and science in a way many can not approximate.If you must forget everything, at least remember his coming up with the Mona Lisa among other paintings.
5. Aristotle – For writing the Athenian constitution and being everything else including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, and biology.
6. Isaac Newton – For being everything academic. Newton was a physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian when just one field is too big for an average mind. Who new gravity before he came along?
7. Marie Curie – For winning two Nobel prizes in Chemistry and physics when one is beyond the reach of many brilliant minds. She also came up with what we call radioactivity and discovered various elements. What a Pole!
8. Karl Marx – For writing Das Kapital, one of the greatest and most complicated books of all time and reinventing communism. The communist manifesto is also among his best offerings to humanity.
9. Albert Einstein – For being one of the most respected physicists of all time and coming up with the theory of relativity which seems to override existence as a whole.
10. Stephen Hawking – For denying the existence of God and offering no apologies and coming up with very fine works on the element of time.
11. Thomas Edison – For inventing the electric bulb among 1000 other inventions.
12. Archimedes – Perhaps there is no greater mathematician than Archimedes. He was a mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer, all wrapped into one and his formula have been used since that time.
13. Rabindranath Tagore – For being an excellent musician, poet and philosopher whose beautiful works of art remain timeless! Remember his Gitanjali and the fact that he wrote two national anthems, one for India and another one for Bangladesh.
14. Leo Tolstoy – For writing works of art that no one else would dare write. Not only did he write War and Peace, Anna Karenina and Resurrection but also added plays, essays and religious writings that introduced a whole new point of view.
15. Larry Page and Sergey Brin – For coming up with Google which has not only changed the way we use the internet but also affected life in a very deep way. Without Google, the internet would be so dull, thanks to these two bright gentlemen.
16. Sigmund Freud – Without him, very few people would be interested in psychology for it would be a very dull subject. He is here for interpreting dreams and coming up with the whole basis of psychoanalysis.
17. William Shakespeare – For adding more than 3000 words into English and coming up with dozens of timeless love sonnets.
18. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche – A philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist. Nietzsche wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science and indeed on everything else that mattered.
19. Erwin Schrödinger – An Austrian physicist and theoretical biologist who proposed Schrödinger’s Cat thought experiment and came up with very useful equations on quantum mechanics. He was awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize for physics.
20. Niels Bohr – Another physicist whose experiments contributed to nuclear power and the much feared atomic bomb. Were it not for this man, atomic structure wouldn’t be so well understood. He was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize for Physics.