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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms… the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.