Centipedes Quote by Anonymous

To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

— Fritz Kreisler

People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine.

— John Lennon

The term 'genius' is inapplicable to anyone in this game. A genius is Norman Einstein.

— Joe Theismann

Geniuses are people who notice things and connections between things which others haven't noticed. Genius must be a surprise.

— Christopher Ricks

“...an arthropod with twenty-one body segments and forty-two legs, is commonly called a centipede (one hundred feet) in English and a "mille-pattes" (thousand legs)…

— Stanislas Dehaene

For a long time I found myself calling so many things "genius." Sometimes you mean it literally and sometimes it's the opposite, but either…

— Nir Hod

We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in ways that are entirely new. In the Middle…

— Joshua Foer

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and…

— Robert Henri

Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.

— E. O. Wilson

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

— John Taylor Gatto

“I myself have always disliked being called a "genius." It is fascinating to notice how quick people have been to intuit this aversion and…

— John Lanchester