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The distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.
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Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust.
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As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character.
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He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.
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It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a world without physicists. And physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
George Wald
Anna Brownell Jameson
Born:
May 19, 1794
Died:
March 17, 1860
(aged 65)
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