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This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated.

— Robert Jarvik

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

— Elbert Hubbard

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

— Livy

Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and significant in proportion to the clarity and fulness with which they incarnate this vision.

— George Edward Woodberry

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

— Josh Billings

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

— Benjamin Haydon

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

— Franz Grillparzer

Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.

— Mitch Kapor

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

✗Opposing Perspectives

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

— Stephen Hawking

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

— George Santayana