Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.Arthur Schopenhauer
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.Denis Diderot
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
It's very common for people to recommend something to me because they're going on what I've already written, when, what really is the case, is that you want to write about something you haven't written about, in ways that you haven't done before.Tom Stoppard
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.Elizabeth II