Leonhard Euler, without a doubt.

I'll take Richard Feynman for nine hours please.

Leonard Euler. He invented the basis for all of their works, besides Newton and Leonardo I guess.

I'd go for Leonardo. The others - while I understand things at a basic level - I'd likely not be able to understand most of their fields.

Maybe Tesla but I'm not sure if the conversation would end up centered around some of the neat science stuff I could grasp or pigeons with laser-eyes ...

Curie three times. Her work was so groundbreaking that she got name recognition on the same level as the rest of them as a woman in the late 1800s. Based on my experiences with modern women in stem, I'd expect she worked way harder to get where she did than any of the rest of them and as such I'd expect her insight to hold a lot more value. I'd pick Pierre too if he was also on the list

Seems like it will be a one sided conversation. They're all dead.

Carl Sagan

Tesla. From what I have heard, he was eccentric ( paranoid possibly? ) so it'd be fun to see if I could get him to think I'm some sort of government agent looking to stop him from doing what he does.

Edit: I misread it. I read it as "you can talk to 3 of these"

Einstein – German and English

Hawking – English

Edison – English

Tesla – Serbocroatic

Curie – Polish

Newton – English

Feynman – English

da Vinci – Italian

Bohr – Danish

I‘d love to see the Tesla, Da Vinci and Einstein - all of them being incredibly smart but no one speaks the Same Language. Heck I think they’ll just switch to Latin to understand each other lol

I'd happily chat with Marie Curie for 3 hours while Einstein and Bohr argue with each other in the background.

Hedy Lamar and Mileva Marić-Einstein

I wanna talk to Isaac Newton about his wizard alchemy hobby

Really? Only one woman? Marie Curie is my choice

"What did you do on Epstein Island, Steven?"

I think Tesla. I want to ask him about a bunch of the rumors and conspiracy theories about him. I'm sure almost all of them are bogus, but I'd love to know.

My son picked Einstein. He's curious what his last words were.

Feynman didn't even write his books

Me: So why did you kill the elephant

Edison: AC bad

Hmmm tough choice. I doubt I would be able to understand DaVinci or Newton. I would prefer to berate Edison. I wouldn't want Curie to irradiate me. Tesla was awesome but kind of nutty. I didn't know Enough about Bohr. So probably Feyman or Einstein. I read Feyman's book so I think I would have a lot to talk about. But I think the win would go to Einstein for me. I just have to know how he came up with it all by just sort of thinking about it. I would hope he would have the best chance of explaining it in a way I could understand. Plus I speak German, so if all else fails we can just talk about spetzle.

Tesla :-)

Leonardo.

I have a long held theory based on the history of the Mona Lisa (Being recognized as a genderswapped self portrait he literally entitled "the Happy one" carried around by the artist and gifted to his gay lover after death) that the artist was trans.

I would absolutely love to potentially verify this because the idea that one of the most famous paintings in the world has been a trans gender affirming portrait in plain sight of art historians this whole time with nobody cluing in and writing a proper paper about it - is just kind of the best.

Feynman, he was a blast to listen to

Feels like there is an imposter between those eight scientific greats

Leonardo. We both are AuDHD so it'll be a semi-productive 3 hours.

i would imagine interview with leonardo could help historians quite a lot.

It's definitely Newton for me, I wanna know how far he really got on the Philosopher's Stone!

Feynman, he's the one you can drink a beer with.

Though if I spoke German I would show up for Einsteins last 3 hours.

Even putting aside the science, Einstein just seems like he was a really good dude. I feel like he'd be a chill person to hang with.