#genius

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#common #creative #diligent #exact #experiments

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting. ↗

— Stanley Tucci

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Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

#cast #geniuses #new #roads #stones

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. ↗

— Simone Weil

#else #genius #humility #nothing #real

All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery. ↗

— Otto Weininger

#conquering #genius #mystery

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#critical #dark #genius #imbecile #imbeciles

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#activity #artists #creative #geniuses #heartless