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.

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation …

For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, bu…

If Fermi had been born a few years earlier, one could well imagine him discovering Rutherford's atomic nucleus, and then developing Bohr's theory of the hydrog…

Buddy Holly was twenty-two. Think of what he might have gone on to achieve. I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of…