Not to be outdone, Sony introducing "Einstein" controller

[TheRealMafoo]

Dallinor said:

rocketpig said:

TheRealMafoo said:

kingofwale said:

they have now achieved victory because the general view is that Einstein is smarter than Newton.

Newton was smarter then Einstein.

That's a tough call but I would have to give the nod to Newton. At the time, his laws came out of left field and shocked everyone. Einstein had a few contemporaries who were working on the same problems.

Of course, Newton was also a selfish asshole but that's aside from the point. 

By all accounts Einstein was a bit of an asshole too.

Although I don't think it's correct to try and estimate which scientist was more intelligent, the traditional view held by the majority of general public is that Einstein was "the smartest man ever".  Hence the reason his name alone is synonomous with the term genius.

Newton probably had more of an impact on science in general though.

I personally don't think Einstein was the smartest man of his lifetime, let alone ever. Of his lifetime, would probably be Alan Turing (who was not an asshole).

he happened to be gay, so there is probably a joke or two where you could use the world asshole, but he was a at least a nice guy :p 

Smartest man Ever? Who the hell knows :)