#geniuses

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

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Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be. ↗

— James Lipton

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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. ↗

— Alan Perlis

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In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still. ↗

— Criss Jami

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If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#equality #exceptions #geniuses #idiots #men

Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective. ↗

— Criss Jami

#amount #classification #classify #context #creativity