Identifying genius is a dicey venture. Consider, for example, this ranking of “The Top 10 Geniuses” I stumbled across on Listverse.com a few years ago. From first to last place, here are the honorees: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Leonardo da Vinci, Emanuel Swedenborg, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, John Stuart Mill, Blaise Pascal, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bobby Fischer, Galileo Galilei and Madame de Staël.
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