10 Smartest People Ever

[@thisisblackmesa]

Leibniz: Invents calculus. (on the list) Newton: Invents calculus, laws of motion, universal law of gravitation, and theory of color. (not on the list)

[@jedaaa]

Didn't Newton invent differential culculus? i thought standard calculus had been around for much longer before them.

[@petrolleshi7619]

They didn't put him "because he was religious" and studying a lot about bible. Even though he gave a greater contribution to science.

[@thomaschoi6734]

Discovers* not invent. those two are very different things

[@markant9534]

+Moulun Karl Marx was a political genius.

[@GastonBoucher]

Yeah Newton invented the laws of motion, haha, no.

[@bill2731]

bullshit. where is my name on this list?

[@TopLists]

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[@sherlockholmeslives.1605]

Professor John von Neumann ( 28 December, 1903 - 8 February, 1957 ) Hungarian-American Mathematician, Physicist, Computer Scientist, Engineer, and Polymath. He made major contributions to a number of different fields including - MATHEMATICS - Foundations of Mathematics Functional Analysis Operator Algebras Representation Theory Ergodic Theory Geometry Topology Numerical Analysis PHYSICS - Quantum Mechanics Hydrodynamics Quantum Statistical Mechanics ECONOMICS - Game Theory COMPUTING - Von Neumann Architecture Linear Programming Self Replicating Machines Stochastic Computing STATISTICS

[@leonhardneumann3654]

this video it's a meme

[@sherlockholmeslives.1605]

@@leonhardneumann3654 What is a meme?

[@michaelblankenau6598]

Agree absolutely . And so few are aware of von Neumann .

[@narutomass]

Leonardo da Vinci not being on this list make's me cringe

[@dannyboy12357]

It took him like 25 years to win an academy award though...

[@mariqstigler2197]

+dannyboy12357 😂😂😂 please tell me you're joking

[@dannyboy12357]

Mariq Stigler Seriously, it took him THAT long.

[@CbriaRules1]

Forget them, why am I not on this list?!!

[@axelpaxel9432]

narutomass it triggers me people think he is in the Same caliber of people like Newton. Newton at age 26 made most of his major contributions to the sciences, until changing gears to religious studies

[@drdopamine369]

Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, and Isaac Newton should have been in the top three

[@theknight9292]

Yet no one is top 10 bruh

[@senseigabor]

Tesla, Einstein, Neumann

[@thales30]

wheres Da Vinci, Einstein, Newton, Feynman, Bohr, Socrates.... this list is just random pickings... the ones i mentioned has all of them made a bigger difference in the world than the ones picked on the list i think...

[@spiros1994]

and many many more...you cannot fit all these people in just a list..

[@sheheryarI]

Arne Grostøl I think this list is targeted towards the ones who aren't that well known

[@voittolehti2432]

And there's Darwin 1# .... Pick one

[@sadii007h9]

Darwin is EXTREMELY well known

[@Outland9000]

Yeah! And Nicolaus Copernicus.

[@MrSnapy1]

They asked Einstein how it felt to be the smartest man who ever lived and he replied " I don't know you will have to ask Nikola Tesla"

[@d25615]

Why is Charles Darwin on this list and not Albert Einstein?

[@dickchampion5860]

Albert Einstein plagiarized his works, thats why.

[@dickchampion5860]

Quantum PhyZ How?

[@leondavid2436]

Darwin in authoritarian countries is regarded as a great scholar. Because he proved that religious hypocrisy, and provide legitimacy to dictators.The dictator's purpose is to make people obey the party secretary, rather than obey the Pope。why Spaniards overthrew the party secretary?because they are more willing to obey the Pope.

[@simonrichard9873]

That's just sad. I am surprised that people would actually obey to religion.

[@sev2725]

why not hitler amirite

[@ryanmccloskey403]

Euler, newton, Einstein?

[@jernyx9139]

Nah Panini had a bigger impact than all of those combined

[@malzzzzification25]

@@jernyx9139 You can't be serious.

[@jernyx9139]

@@malzzzzification25 Im super serious. My IQ is 197 and I know what Im talking about.

[@malzzzzification25]

@@jernyx9139 Man, I don't care what your IQ is, if what you're saying is stupid, then you're stupid.

[@zlatanibrahimovic8329]

I believe the man may have been being sarcastic

[@BleedingKnight]

Nikola Tesla will always remain the most underrated ( and most genius for me) person ever.

[@revyu6754]

I’m not sure the human race is a whole human completely understands everything Tesla created or the possible applications for some of his inventions. He was so far ahead of his time I think we still don’t understand. And, of course, it appears that some of his inventions were suppressed by some parties or others, for one reason or another.

[@samting3694]

Niccolo Machiavelli is a smart man, and he certainly was very influential in the way he recorded and wrote his thinking and theories, but there are many other minds far more deserving to replace him in this top ten. Francois-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stephen William Hawking, Carl Friedrich Gauss ...just to name a few.

[@Chrisbajs]

Da Vinci and Einstein are missing.

[@bodleyfludes7958]

No, no, they're not missing, they're DEAD. Check out the obits first next time. Ask the police - as soon as someone is declared dead, they are no longer missing.

[@pratik_shrestha]

@Blod Grogan lmao

[@emmottsi]

I think Chris Bajs should be on the list!

[@juanjvelasquez6240]

Where the heck is Leonardo DaVinci??

[@jaymacdonnell4730]

Ha! Queer

[@juanjvelasquez6240]

Jay MacDonnell Huh?

[@ollieroks]

this is nothing but crappy ass theory.

[@milis4932]

and Pythagoras also?!

[@juanjvelasquez6240]

milis4932 In that case, Plato, Descartes, Kant, Nietzsche......

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[@odean14]

Wtf happened to Albert Einstein? Are you kidding me? you would put Charles Darwin over him?

[@hendrickdias8366]

+odean14 I was about to comment that, i mean what gives?!

[@2bags]

+Hendrick Dias Einstein never was intelligent. He can't even read. You cal that a genius?

[@2bags]

+Hendrick Dias His brilliance was only applied when he used numbers as letters, helped make nulcear bombs, and the fucking Theory of Relativity. He got suspended from schools MULTIPLE times. Now, do you still believe this 'genius' you call?

[@2bags]

+Hendrick Dias Not trying to hate, though, I still admire Albert Einstein.

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[@hentehoo27]

Nikola Tesla is mentioned in the list (#4)

[@juliantreidiii]

Nikola Tesla also made the first computer circuit.

[@joshuahunt3032]

I wish people wouldn't suppressed as much of his work. If Tesla had his way, if we still needed cell phones by now, we'd have wireless chargers.

[@teviottilehurst]

he's Croatian by the way. Born there.

[@dusanjandric5123]

he is Serbian, born in austrian hungarian empire by the way.

[@mariohernandez8675]

such an awesome list but then you put Darwin as #1 really? smh

[@teviottilehurst]

Darwin changed the way we thought of ourselves. He deserves to be on this list but not at #1. Einstein's my choice for # 1

[@gokuvegeta4378]

darwin wasnt even sure of his theory

[@gokuvegeta4378]

and its exactly that a theory

[@dubuthegoat6374]

the creator of this vid should be an atheist.

[@LeighHughesSenlis]

You, like many another, do not understand what 'theory' means in a scientific context.

[@mountainking9564]

Wow! They were all white men. How brave you are to be so honest in this crazy 'be politically correct' age.

[@c.darwin9259]

IKR

[@krissisk4163]

Einstein? DaVInci? Hawking? There are three people right off the top of my head undoubtably smarter than your #1 pick. In fact, I'd place Darwin in the bottom half of the list if I even put him on it at all. Sure, the man was a genus, but the smartest man to ever live? I think not. Not by a long freaking shot.

[@c.darwin9259]

Absolutely uninformed gibberish. Darwin is estimated to have a higher iq than Einstein and even Galelao, I know people who talk about iq are idiots but in this context it’s reasonable enough to bring up.

[@lukecockburn1140]

Not hawking

[@TopLists]

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[@joesalter5304]

Ur amazing

[@covjekapsurda2673]

yes what was that about the Germans

[@ollieroks]

this crap is theory. their for crap is theory.

[@TheoriesOnNatureOfReality]

Einstein and Newton must have been in the list. Come on, how could you not include them?

[@markant9534]

+Omkar Chandra James Woods has a higher IQ than Einstein!!! Maybe Woods and S.Stone should have directed the specialist, lol!!!

[@LiveForFuntasy]

I'm just stunned at how callously they passed over putting Sir Isaac Newton on this list. Why? Because he spent some time studying alchemy and the Bible? So what? Many scientists, including ones listed, did similar things. Did you forget all the other contributions Newton made to science? There's a reason he's constantly put at or near the top of most influential people (not just limited to scientists) in all of history. I think other commenters have spoken for me on the also disappointing lack of Leonardo da Vinci as well as several others who are superior to most of those on this list. I and others have been noticing more and more errors and oversights in these videos as of late, and that's really disappointing because I've long thought very highly of this channel.

[@CashelOConnolly]

He also liked BDSM

[@Kharkivskyi]

Where's Avicenna? Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (The developer of algebra, algorithms, and Hindu-Arabic numerals)???

[@Kharkivskyi]

Am Klo what the hell are you talking about??? forced??nobody forced to be muslim!

[@InfintyzPvP]

how to be a troll 101

[@jwalker3343]

I don't think Muslims understand sarcasm.

[@bffiezstudio7131]

they dont want avicenna or the truth reveal...there are blind......

[@bffiezstudio7131]

suraj sharma avicenna?

[@radupatron6137]

Einstein? !

[@lupettoversilia]

too much buzy grabbing coins lost over the streets

[@HeyLook287]

He's not really regarded as a real genius compared to a number of other historical figures, say if the list was not 10, but 30, he'd definitely be on it.

[@radupatron6137]

HeyLook ItsABirdItsAPlaneNoItsAReallyLongUsername Einstein was not a genius?! what are talking about?!

[@HeyLook287]

Radu Patron Compared to these guys, no.

[@pat45greg47]

Are you kidding? Did you even know who Panini was before this list?

[@TheAdithya1991]

Carl Friedrich Gauss?

[@litespeed65]

Newton solved the 2 body problem in all it's glory. This achievement represents perhaps the single greatest leap in the history of Science because Newton had to conjure his tools- the Theory of Gravitation and the Mathematical machinery of Calculus from thin air. Principia gave all the principles needed for Apollo and the Moon landings. In Principia-Part 3, Newton established the motions of the planets around the Sun and determined the Planetary masses relative to that of the Earth. He estimated the mass and Density of the Earth to within 20%. He accounted for the flattening of the poles due to the Earth's spin and derived the rate of Precession of the Earth's axis due it's non-spherical shape. He established a theory of Tidal action, calculated the irregularity of the Moon's orbit due to the attraction of the Sun and analyzed the orbits of the Comets so that their returns could be predicted. Each of these feats would have marked Newton for Scientific immortality, that one man accomplished them all is beyond comprehension.

[@fatimacastillo3239]

The main virtues that characterize the thinking man are the following: Intelligence Intellect Idealism Logic Lucidity Reason Analysis.

[@robhex]

I was waiting for Leonardo da Vinci. 🤔

[@benflokstra5609]

Albert Einstein was once asked how it was to be the smartest man alive, his reply: I don't know, ask Tesla

[@irisbunky]

apocryphal story?

[@Nautilus1972]

I don't need to watch this to know that William James Siddis isn't on it.

[@Knowie117]

it's amazing how we as humans are able to think of such things

[@TopLists]

Usually only a select few pioneer in fields, and then the rest of us benefit while trying to make derivative technologies.

[@Knowie117]

it is true, and I thank them for that

[@bailinnumberguy]

This list is more noteworthy for who's not on it: Einstein, Newton, Copernicus, Euler, Aristotle, Plato, Confucius, Voltaire, Epictetus, etc, etc. Making a top 10 list is kind of absurd. Random trivia: Darwin and Lincoln were born on the same day.

[@R.E.D.gaming]

Turings influence on Microbiology is almost as great as his influence on modern computing. If this list had taken that into account Turing would be in the top 3.

[@boyinlube9733]

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi? Sun Tzu??? The sole fact that Leonardo da Vinci is missing from this list makes me laugh 😂😂😂

[@bepsi6204]

Number 1 the guy that narrates this channel

[@TopLists]

+MrBeppoHD He actually is an incredibly gifted and brilliant person. Getting to know him has been one of the greatest opportunities in my life.

[@nobblkpraetorian5623]

Are you the editor or the narrator himself? Because the way you speak about the narrator is suspicious...

[@TopLists]

Suspicious how?

[@youaygebi5354]

+Top Lists wow you really care about your fans !! You deserve a sub here :D

[@RIFLQ]

You mean the writer?

[@jessicafredriksson5952]

What's the music in the background? I recognize it from somewhere but can't figure out wherefrom...

[@TheMorganVEVO]

Alan Turing, William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, and Charles Darwin. Wow. Almost half the list are Brits! Yay Britain!! 👏👏👏🙏 I have so much admiration for their contributions to society. It would be a dream to visit their academic institutions some day. 🙄

[@amichair]

I wholeheartedly agree(as the son of an English teacher).

[@adamboros7850]

Absolutely not like these lists are highly subjective at all......... :D

[@artofcinematography2840]

@@adamboros7850 lol yeah all these lists are made by mostly Americans or Britishers

[@harshitjain3389]

They built themselves after distroying the rest of the world especially INDIA

[@dangeread]

Alan Turing broke the Enigma code based on work of polish cryptanalists ;) it wasn't really almost single handed..

[@adamthornton7845]

Yes your list is incomplete for sure. You failed to mention Newton in any real depth, as well as the great sin of failing to mention ( or even know of ) Goethe. I Love how you mentioned Panini and Neumann however..... most people will never know of these men. Where in the hell is Leonardo Da Vinci ????

[@want2seeall]

Great top 10; as usual. You always hit a home run!!! Thank you for the great work.

[@BenVaserlan]

A few missed out: Carl Jung, Einstein, Kant, Ludwig von Mises, Aristotle, and Nagarjuna the Madhyamika Buddhist.

[@tazeokgaming6098]

Ben Vaserlan why the hell does everyone say that “ oh you missed out on THIS person. He could have done nothing like Jesus. Before you make a reply about how dumb I am or what ever, I am not only talking about you. Scroll down the comment section. You will see it.

[@warhawkification]

tesla was head and shoulders above anyone

[@tvvelvegauge12]

Orange Hitler, Einstein was once asked how it felt to be the smartest man alive. His reply was, "I don't know, you'd have to ask Nikola Tesla."

[@edruaneinkerry]

In science maybe but as an arts science polymath one person rises above the rest IMHO Leonardo.

[@kewienferenc6524]

luke agree

[@rayleighton725]

*William James Sides enters the chat*

[@shashankaadiga4969]

@@tvvelvegauge12 That's a wide spread myth , Einstein never told anything about tesla .

[@cluclap]

Sooo.... No Leonardo Da Vinci???

[@kmeccat]

I think you left off quite a few biggies... Einstein William James Sidis DaVinci Newton Gauss Mozart (for the musicians) Ben Franklin (my personal fav)

[@sgtspiffywiffy5799]

an idea for another list would be 10 greatest engineer's and what they made weather it be ships, trains, cars, tanks or buildings

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[@spacebutter2062]

Thats a good one!

[@m.g9346]

what's the editing software name you used in this video ?

[@noorsyed2865]

where is the creator of algebra?

[@onandonandomnom]

everyone hates algebra, so....

[@boyinlube9733]

It is Babylonians who created the basics of algebra. Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi didn't invent it. He developed it. I think he should have been here too.

[@jamaicaboy544]

koalten j whether you like it or not is irrelevant, without algebra we wouldnt have algorithms, without algorithms we wouldnt have computer programmes who have allowed you to make that stupid comment

[@enigma9306]

Just in the sciences missing here: Gauss? Euler? Da Vinci? Newton? Einstein? Gödel? Riemann? Dirac? Ramanujin? Poincaré? Wiles? Nash? Didn't any of these cross your mind?

[@VaporsUnion]

No Einstein? Da Vinci? Socrates? Sun Tzu??? What the fuck.

[@dl7096]

I agree, they left out great great great minds but they needed more room in all fairness.

[@livingdead0294]

Edison? All he ever did was steal ideas from Nikola Tesla. That guy does not deserve to be on here considering how much more inferior he is Tesla that Tesla practically owns his fame in this world.

[@livingdead0294]

But yes I do agree that someone other than Darwin deserved the top spot. His "theory" although considered accurate by people with no religion, it is refuted by the millions that have one. Not saying that his theory was wrong or right I just don't see how something that can be perceived wrong by a lot of people and right by a lot of people as well deserves a spot on the top spot. Instead of putting someone that made enormous contributions to the world you put someone that had a theory that could be debated to be wrong. Not being biased but Tesla deserved that spot considering how much of our world would cease to exist without him. Then change Darwin with someone more important like Leonardo Da Vinci

[@tommytucker5464]

+jagdwurst esser no commoner could write that shit. He has more wisdom and intelligence in his toenail than most leaders of today

[@ZiPolishHammer]

Darwin's "theory" can only be perceived as wrong if you've been living under a fucking rock your entire life. With that said, Darwin's writings were hardly unique as others had written of the same phenomenon many times before. Einstein and da Vinci absolutely belonged on the list.

[@logicallunatic8351]

The number one slot goes to a guy who is known for a singular theory(which he denounced) that has languished without any significant advances for generations. Evolutionary theory as it pertains to humanity is no clearer today than it was 200 years ago. I could literally think of 50 people more deserving of the top spot.

[@Nautilus1972]

If evolution isn't clear to you then you're just thick. Don't worry about it.

[@logicallunatic8351]

Nautilus1972 Or You're just another moron who believes what you're told. Because I'm positive you don't know shit about evolution outside what you were told to believe.

[@mikespearwood3914]

+Logical Lunatic so you believe evolution is bullshit then?

[@randyrossi4640]

Where is Albert Einstein?

[@theknight9292]

Outside of the list lol

[@El_Chompo]

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[@El_Chompo]

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[@lakshitpande4212]

Why haven't you written about Aryabhatta? No mathematical philosophy and cosmology is complete without him. Its very shameful if you don't know about him.

[@ytxmak]

Maybe HE needs to get a better PR firm ha ha Seriously, tell me more about this guy.....

[@indibaba1264]

google is free search about aryabhatta. he developed trignometry,astronomy etc

[@suraj-op2bx]

Ytxmak and arithmatic figure Zero

[@leondavid2436]

excuse me, what is the contribution of Darwin? hahaha.......

[@leondavid2436]

you know? I prefer Tesla

[@leondavid2436]

Am Klo Yes, but he should not be on the bottom position

[@GastonBoucher]

This was NOT a top 10.

[@AlfredTheBrave]

excuse me, the discovery of evolution reformed biology completely......

[@bubbajones6907]

WOLVES WWFC1887 Educated people don't believe Darwin came up with evolution. The theory of Evolution has been around for thousands of years. Darwin speculated on the mechanism of Evolution but that was incomplete at best.

[@debbie94510]

Take darwin out entirely as the inventor of a failed 19th century fairy tale, and put Einstein in his place. Who puts these lists together??

[@stevenschmidt9882]

no Aristotle? no einstein? wtf?

[@danieldanielsonricha]

At first i thought this is just another mediocre list, but when i saw the #1 pick, i realized this is a joke on the viewers! Well played, Top Lists! Literally everyone on that list was smarter than Darwin.

[@lazios]

I understand that we live in an "english" world and Francis Bacon was undoubtedly one of the great minds that humanity has had, and no one can deny the importance of its work on the inductive method (from the philosophical point of view). But if we talk of science the "father of scientific method" it's only one.. Galileo Galilei.(universally recognized by any physicist, mathematician and scientist in general).

[@manchest_hair_united1161]

Schrödinger? Ramanujan? WTF ,what about them. I can agree with most of the video, especially with Darwin being first,but those two were just unparalleled genius, Schrödinger was the one who laid the foundation for modern quantum physics, and Ramanujan arguably one of the greatest mathematician in history. These two deserved to be mentioned in this video

[@ibadrehman624]

Very stupid list. Darwin #1? LOL

[@theknight9292]

Yes

[@c.darwin9259]

How’s it stupid? He’s probably the smartest man to ever live if not within the top five.

[@theknight9292]

@@c.darwin9259 I know, how can you make fun of him Bloody intelligent design

[@c.darwin9259]

the knight fuck yeah!

[@theknight9292]

@@c.darwin9259 heck yeah

[@saintsdayeve]

What is this background music? I could use this while reading

[@johnprinsloo1197]

Leonardo Da Vinci should have been number one, hands down... and where is Albert Einstein ? :/ What about Srinivasa Ramanujan ?? .... Darwin should not even be on this list, in my opinion - his theory is still questionable.

[@tvvelvegauge12]

No, Tesla should be #1. And evolution is not a theory, it's a fact. Bacteria have been observed evolving in the lab.

[@ufarkingicehole]

John Prinsloo einstein was over rated. The Unibomber was smarter than Einstein

[@imtiazmohammad9548]

Albert Einstein and Ramanujan are the smartest of all

[@simranjitsingh8101]

wtf!!! Justin Bieber,Kim kardashiysn and kanye west are not on the list!!!!

[@heesingsia4634]

You forgot Donald trump

[@ydihtty]

haha funny joke

[@ClintonFD]

We have only just begun to understand Trump's genius. An updated list will be made a few decades from now naming Trump as number one.

[@ydihtty]

Clinton I hope you're joking

[@sh0werp0wer]

_"I'm not dumb. I'm the opposite. I'm smart. I'm very smart. I'm brilliant"_ - Donald Trump Proof's right there.

[@johndef5075]

We just assume that hes no. 1.

[@davidb9114]

I should be on this list, I invented the Buttscratcher 5000.

[@salemku446]

Top list why arent There any islamic or Arabic figures. there where a lot of smart people if you make a quick search in different fields such as medicine science and mathematics from around 800 years ago and all of this list is like 300 years max pls reply

[@josephprice1785]

Good ol western world culture giving itself a back on the back...again.

[@devinyoung8612]

The very first guy was German.

[@jedaaa]

perhaps because after a time islam and the arab world rejected scientific inquiry so those peoples contributions were never taken full advantage of or developed by others.

[@salemku446]

Ok I know the Arabic world is years behind but still he should have given some credit. 😘

[@jedaaa]

true. also the Chinese. they were the most technologically advanced civilization on earth for around 5 thousand years up until the British industrial revolution. must be a good few hundred Chinese geniuses amoungst them in all that time

[@GreasyKing]

I detect a bias in the names selected. Maybe the mixing of disciplines is not a good idea.

[@mrclonept]

I'm smarter then most of the guys...because i'm still alive and they aren't

[@bertangela6549]

you are so funny

[@pints6994]

After reading that, I feel sorry for you.

[@SuperAde321]

+WubzPlays youre fun arent you

[@pints6994]

I'm usually fun when I'm not annoyed as fuck about having to do a project on Ramadan.

[@dannyboy12357]

To be remembered for all the future generations of humankind is a sort of immortality in itself that only a few will ever achieve. being alive for a mere 80 years without making long lasting contributions is not even living, but only a mere derivative of a flash of existence.

[@dalesteven8405]

i'm smart you see, In 1608, a congregation of disgruntled English Protestants from the village of Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, left England and moved to Leyden, a town in Holland. These “Separatists” did not want to pledge allegiance to the Church of England, which they believed was nearly as corrupt and idolatrous as the Catholic Church it had replaced, any longer. (They were not the same as the Puritans, who had many of the same objections to the English church but wanted to reform it from within.) The Separatists hoped that in Holland, they would be free to worship as they liked Did You Know? The Separatists who founded the Plymouth Colony referred to themselves as “Saints,” not “Pilgrims.” The use of the word “Pilgrim” to describe this group did not become common until the colony’s bicentennial. In fact, the Separatists (they called themselves “Saints”) did find religious freedom in Holland, but they also found a secular life that was more difficult to navigate than they’d anticipated. For one thing, Dutch craft guilds excluded the migrants, so they were relegated to menial, low-paying jobs. Even worse was Holland’s easygoing, cosmopolitan atmosphere, which proved alarmingly seductive to some of the Saints’ children. (These young people were “drawn away,” Separatist leader William Bradford wrote, “by evill [sic] example into extravagance and dangerous courses.”) For the strict, devout Separatists, this was the last straw. They decided to move again, this time to a place without government interference or worldly distraction: the “New World” across the Atlantic Ocean. THE MAYFLOWER First, the Separatists returned to London to get organized. A prominent merchant agreed to advance the money for their journey. The Virginia Company gave them permission to establish a settlement, or “plantation,” on the East Coast between 38 and 41 degrees north latitude (roughly between the Chesapeake Bay and the mouth of the Hudson River). And the King of England gave them permission to leave the Church of England, “provided they carried themselves peaceably.” In August 1620, a group of about 40 Saints joined a much larger group of (comparatively) secular colonists-“Strangers,” to the Saints-and set sail from England on two merchant ships: the Mayflower and the Speedwell. The Speedwell began to leak almost immediately, however, and the ships headed back to port. The travelers squeezed themselves and their belongings onto the Mayflower and set sail once again. Because of the delay caused by the leaky Speedwell, the Mayflower had to cross the Atlantic at the height of storm season. As a result, the journey was horribly unpleasant. Many of the passengers were so seasick they could scarcely get up, and the waves were so rough that one “Stranger” was swept overboard and drowned. (It was “the just hand of God upon him,” Bradford wrote later, for the young sailor had been “a proud and very profane yonge man.”) THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT After two miserable months at sea, the ship finally reached the New World. There, the Mayflower’s passengers found an abandoned Indian village and not much else. They also found that they were in the wrong place: Cape Cod was located at 42 degrees north latitude, well north of the Virginia Company’s territory. Technically, the Mayflower colonists had no right to be there at all. In order to establish themselves as a legitimate colony (“Plymouth,” named after the English port from which they had departed) under these dubious circumstances, 41 of the Saints and Strangers drafted and signed a document they called the Mayflower Compact. This Compact promised to create a “civil Body Politick” governed by elected officials and “just and equal laws.” It also swore allegiance to the English king. PLYMOUTH COLONY AND THE FIRST THANKSGIVING The colonists spent the first winter, which only 53 passengers and half the crew survived, living onboard the Mayflower. (The Mayflower sailed back to England in April 1621.) Once they moved ashore, the colonists faced even more challenges. During their first winter in America, more than half of the Plymouth colonists died from malnutrition, disease and exposure to the harsh New England weather. In fact, without the help of the area’s native people, it is likely that none of the colonists would have survived. An English-speaking Pawtuxet named Samoset helped the colonists form an alliance with the local Wampanoags, who taught them how to hunt local animals, gather shellfish and grow corn, beans and squash. At the end of the next summer, the Plymouth colonists celebrated their first successful harvest with a three-day festival of thanksgiving. We still commemorate this feast today. Eventually, the Plymouth colonists were absorbed into the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony. Still, the Mayflower Saints and their descendants remained convinced that they alone had been specially chosen by God to act as a beacon for Christians around the world. “As one small candle may light a thousand,” Bradford wrote, “so the light here kindled hath shone to many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.”

[@willanderson7099]

Anyone else notice the time on the vid is 9 11

[@gabrielalexanderpalma6083]

9:10 now

[@mikespearwood3914]

what is your point?

[@donaldkelly5376]

That's because the video is just shorter than 9:12 and just longer than 9:10.

[@Valeria-rl9zg]

basilbrushnz it's actually Setamber 11

[@chaosordeal294]

Half-Life 3 confirmed!!

[@charliefirpo7235]

I don't see the names of Carl Friedrich Gauss or Euclide anywhere! They have been the greatest mathematicians of all times, I think they should deserve to be on the list

[@nukeman9467]

I would really like to see a top 10 greatest generals of all times, possibly even more than 10, because they're really too many, and 10 are really not enough, you would miss a lot of them

[@TopLists]

+NukeMan That's a great idea.

[@lashawnjames4184]

+Top Lists Heneral Luna

[@japphan]

1. Some actually claim that Machiavelli did not write "instructions" for a ruler, but a satirical peice on the current ruler. "It is better to be feared than to be loved." does sound slightly (and by slightly I mean terribly) ironic, doesn't it? 2. Glad you picked Leibniz over Newton. Newton was a great craftsman of mathematics, but did not achieve anything that would not be achieved by decent mathematicians over a few decades. Sure, he sped up the process, but his greatest talent was to make people think he was a genius. For Leibniz, I'm not sure about mentioning the monad theory, since it was not really original, (similar theories existed) and one of his least influential theories. Sure, it's quite well known, so mentioning it makes some sense. 3. Not picking Einstein over almost anyone on this list is just silly. His creative methods for thinking is something so extraordinairy, and it is doubtful that anyone could have come up with the same ideas at the time, or even later. The combination of creativity and logic is so rare, and catapulted physics in a way that we are still trying to understand. 4. Darwin a genius? Meh. He was ok, and very influential, but it does not take a genius to draw the conclusions he did from the facts that were at hand. It took a lot of bravery, and Darwin should be admired, but that does not make him a genius.

[@natttomes4588]

they were all built on someone else's hard work.

[@LeanMeanRevengeMachine]

wow i love how this video is very well edited and organized, great job guys keep it up!

[@johnjoe7826]

This is anglo saxon biased bs... Shakespeare... Really???

[@johnmacrae2006]

+John Joe Well, England got a twofer because Bacon=Shakespeare. Also, Darwin got evolutionary theory from Plato who got it from Pythagoras, who got it from the Indian Vedas. At least Isaac Newton wasn't on the list.

[@mikespearwood3914]

+johnmacrae2006 ironically Newton should be there.

[@johnclementi4224]

Bacon's and Shakespeare's image clusters don't match. As it is hard for some to think a man who was only "grade school" educated could be such a writer, maybe Shakespeare did exist.

[@szcsaba1994]

Saw a hungarian, gave a like. Neumann was not only genius, but really mad, too. You can read some funny stories about him on internet, worth it

[@arashghasemi]

very accurate selection ... with this in mind, everyone else is somehow a derivative (including Riemann, Boltzmann and Einstein) and I am not biased

[@errmoc5682]

Isaac Newton should have been in the list. That is my only problem

[@arashghasemi]

Newton 0:47

[@errmoc5682]

Yes he is mentioned but not listed

[@errmoc5682]

I often wonder how many great minds we have never heard of simply because of lost records or the absence of info on them

[@johnmacrae2006]

+Arash Ghasemi Darwin derived from Plato. Evolutionary theory was not new, it just hadn't penetrated Christian European academia until Darwin.

[@williamrance5086]

Genius? Many, many, years ago, I shared a taxi on a journey from the port of La Spezia, Italy, to Nice airport in France. We were four British Merchant Marine officers, homeward bound for a bit of leave. We had partied aboard our ship the night before - we had the mother of all hangovers! We stopped for a break. One of our number purchased a raffia bound flagon of Ruffino. Desperate for a sip of the red, and, lacking a cork-screw, we each tried to remove the cork - making a right mess of things! Then, barely conscious of his whereabouts - befogged within an alcoholic haze, one of my companions, an engineer, a son of Glasgow's Govan docklands, and completely un-intelligible to my English ears, grabbed the bottle from my hands, fumbled in his pockets, whipped out a ball-point pen and thrust into the neck of the bottle with such force that the remnants of the cork shot inwards into the Bacchus juice. He lifted the bottle above his head and partook of the crimson liquid, then, with a banal grin on his boozy face, passed it around amongst us. Now, gentlemen, that's what I call, pure, undiluted genius! If that did not qualify for the benefit of his fellow humans', then, I remain speechless. Perhaps we could etch out his facial features on the cliff side of Ben Nevis, celebrating a truly Scottish genius!

[@EugenemichaelP.]

Einstein Einstein Einstein Einstein

[@aitaziz4871]

name of the music used please

[@reasonable370]

I should be on this list. I've created genius work such as, "how to make a spaghetti monster" and "why North Korea is a great place to live". I think my work has revolutionized human thought! It's amazing!

[@kdavidwhitehorn2963]

Where is my Mama on the list: she created miracle on Christmas Thanksgiving

[@TopLists]

Did we miss any?

[@nickonos]

U missed me ; )

[@FulfillMyWill]

Einstein?

[@jaybristowe2346]

Leonardo da Vinci

[@jaybristowe2346]

Stephen hawking

[@luiscortes381]

albert Einstein

[@Adam-ry6eg]

how long did it take you to make this videos?

[@nasty9403]

Where is _____ on this list !!

[@mohittiwari8934]

Ramanujan?

[@sherlockholmeslives.1605]

Top 10 Most Brilliant People - William McGonagall Patrick Moore Sarah Palin Lucy Worsley Thomas Shadwell Harrison Birtwistle Rowan Williams Verdi Julian Schwinger Art Garfunkel.

[@gaurav.raj.mishra]

Mike Fuller Donald Trump

[@enigma9306]

Newton's alchemy was essentially modern metallurgy. He was also far more of a genius than anyone else who ever lived, in my opinion.

[@hanvroman]

Yes, alchemy and chemistry are closely related....

[@zeljkoradanovic5529]

Nikola Tesla should be number 1

[@stacywebb2717]

Željko Radanović I agree also he wasint Serbian he was Croatian (unless that was Serbia)

[@sherlockholmeslives.1605]

Alfred Austin ( 30 May, 1835 - 2 June,1913 ) English Poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896. WRITER Critic Journalist Novelist Playwright Prose Writer BARRISTER EDITOR He was the Deputy Lieutenant of Hertfordshire.

[@VaingloriousVampire]

Yeah, he's on everybody's list

[@lucianogomes6872]

Karl Marx.

[@youtobanotoba]

What about Immanuel Kant? He just has created the entire contemporary ethics and moral principles and was the maximus expoent of the actual concept of society 300 years ago. Everything just thinking alone in his city in Germany that he never left.

[@iwillnottellyou7480]

This was great until #1 even if Evolution is true (evolution is still a theory) Darwin did not impact society as much as tesla.

[@MrTerrymiff]

You are another one of those people who do not understand the meaning of the word 'theory' in a scientific contest.

[@alanlockhart3543]

The physical process of evolution is a scientifically factually process testable in dog , pigeon and horse breeding today and even at the smallest molecular level with germs and microbial lifeforms . Evolution is why you are here today, why we can find fossils of our ancestors and find genetic code in our bones, blood and throughout our still evolving bodies.

[@guyincognito7979]

you do realise that there is a difference for my theory that someone just write on a piece of paper and a scientific theory that has been proven many times by substantial amount of evidence so you see a theory and a scientific theory is not the same thing evolution is a scientific theory

[@dacelticcross]

But but but where are all the women genius and Asian genius!!!

[@silverrain530]

Some of these I agree with but others like Darwin I think don't deserve their spots on this list. Evolution has been proven false and there is no evidence of any missing links up to this day. Niccolo Machiavelli (I hope I wrote that right) I think was generally correct but dishonourable so I personally don't like him but his statement about "it is better to be feared than loved" is true as history demonstrates. Tesla definitely deserved a spot on this list, in my opinion. Shakespeare was a really smart individual as well

[@gamersassemble7219]

Evolution is real lmao

[@josh000132]

+Clorox Bleach lol this guy, hes talking crazy

[@QuantumPhyZ]

Evolution not true? Get your hand off your PC, and everything that people evolved to, to create and transform. You don't deserve them.

[@silverrain530]

Look up "Irreducible complexity" That is my argument against evolution.

[@ZiPolishHammer]

Citing a creationist term as evidence hardly aids your cause buddy. I take it you're religious?

[@mohittiwari8934]

Agree with you

[@toomdog]

I've heard it said that Darwin never believed in macro evolution; he just wrote about the micro evolution he observed.

[@red94mr28]

Einstein should replace Machavelli on this list. Einstein developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, and won the Nobel Prize for discovering of the law of the photoelectric effect. Machavelli wrote a guide book for dictators

[@krecik2336]

Alan Turing couldn't have cracked the code without polish mathematicians.

[@fryderykpotargowicz9046]

polish matematics cracked enigma code and tesla did not invited x rays lel

[@nathanmidge]

Glad Panini made this list. That guys makes some top sandwiches.