Quotes About Genius

No two breaths are the same; no two moments are the same. Each one is our life. Each one is infinitely deep and complete in itself. The challenge here is to embody and live this awareness, to work with the automatic habits of mind that would turn us into automatons and betray our genius, to walk our own path, as Larry is continually encouraging the reader to do, to find our own way, breath by breath, to taste silence and discover liberation within each and any breath.

que la naturaleza no era ni muy pródiga ni muy tacaña a la hora de conceder los dones del genio y de la inteligencia a sus habitantes;—sino que, como un progenitor juicioso, era moderadamente benigna con todos ellos;

Picasso." He whispers like a priest. "Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, molded it, ripped from the earth with two angry hands.

Holmes, you're a genius. So I have been told.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is one of the most striking of our modern national genius.

If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.

Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years of my life bent over my writing desk."

Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

Oh, that Einstein, always skipping lectures... I certainly never would have thought he could do it.

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

Execution is the chariot of genius.

Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.

I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.

Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.