Snillingur

Snillingur (á latínu: genius) er manneskja með óvenjulega andlega hæfileika og gáfur, svokallaða snilligáfu. Engin vísindaleg skilgreining er til á hugtakinu, sem á sér rætur aftur í fornöld, og deilt er um merkingu þess en eigi að síður er snillingshugtakið mikið notað í margháttuðu samhengi, ekki síst síðan á nítjándu öld.

• Sófókles
• Evripídes
• Virgill
• William Shakespeare
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Arkímedes
• Isaac Newton
• Gottfried Leibniz
• Leonhard Euler
• Carl Friedrich Gauß
• Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
• Nikola Tesla
• Max Planck
• Marie Curie
• Albert Einstein
• Niels Bohr
• Erwin Schrödinger
• Werner Heisenberg
• Richard Feynman
• John Forbes Nash

• Platon
• Aristóteles
• David Hume
• Immanuel Kant
• John Stuart Mill
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Saul Kripke

• Charles Darwin

• Leonardo da Vinci
• Michelangelo Buonarroti
• Rembrandt
• Vincent van Gogh

• Bobby Fischer

• Aristarkos
• Nikulás Kópernikus
• Stephen Hawking

• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Joseph Haydn
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Ludwig van Beethoven

• Clifford A. Pickover (1998). Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmen. (Plenum Publishing Corporation).
• Eysenck, H.J. (1995). Genius: The Natural History of Creativity. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
• Galton, F. (1869). Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry Into Its Laws and Consequences. (London: Macmillan).
• Gladwell, Malcolm. (2008). Outliers: The Story of Success. (New York: Little, Brown and Company).
• Harold Bloom (2002). Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds. (Warner Books).
• Murray, C. (2003). Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences. 800 B.C. to 1950. (New York: HarperCollins).
• Simonton, Dean Keith (1999). Origins of genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity. (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
• Simonton, Dean Keith (2004). Creativity in Science: Chance, Logic, Genius, and Zeitgeist. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
• Simonton, Dean Keith (2009). Genius 101. (New York: Springer).

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