Robert

“Even worse, those with accomplishments worthy of the designation
"genius" do not always make the IQ cut. When Terman first used the IQ test to select a sample of child geniuses, he unknowingly excluded a special child whose IQ did not make the grade. Yet a few decades later that overlooked talent received the Nobel Prize in physics: William Shockley, the cocreator of the transistor. Ironically, not one of the more than 1,500 children who qualified according to his IQ criterion received so high an honor as adults. Clearly, a Nobel laureate has much greater claim to the term genius than those whose achievements did not win them such applause.”
― Dean Keith Simonton, Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity

“If this represents a basic need for order in the human mind and since, after all, the human mind is only part of the universe, the need probably exists because there is some order in the universe and the universe is not a chaos.”
― Claude Lévi-Strauss, Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture

“It is fair to say that, in general, no problems have been exhausted; instead, men have been exhausted by the problems. Soil that appears impoverished to one researcher reveals its fertility to another.”
― Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Advice for a Young Investigator

“God was not doing much at this juncture for his chosen people. Perhaps he was busy in some other corner of the world, or perhaps he wanted to let the people know they weren't so chosen after all? If a person can't trust the gods, how can he trust other people?”
― David Albahari, Gec i Majer; Kontrolni punkt