Savants Quotes
14 quotes by 13 authors
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Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which…
— Charles Babbage
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I object to being called a chess genius, because I consider myself to be an all around genius, who just happens to play chess, which…
— Bobby Fischer
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Animals are like autistic savants. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that animals might actually be autistic savants. Animals have special talents…
— Temple Grandin
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If, as some savants of consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive as real, then it stands…
— Phil Lesh
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I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant.
— Martin Cruz Smith
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The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them…
— Alfred Nobel
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Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does…
— Ice T
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I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what…
— Joshua Foer
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I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice.
— Dan Rather
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I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when…
— Bertrand Russell
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I'm not sure I'm the only savant with high IQ or with an above average IQ. Again, it may just be that we don't know…
— Daniel Tammet
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There are estimated to be fewer that 50 prodigious savants worldwide. If we were brought together, it would be disappointing in the sense of us…
— Daniel Tammet
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Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite…
— Christopher Hitchens
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There are only two good outcomes for a quest like this, the hope of the serendipitous savant — sail for Asia and stumble on America…
— Jess Walter
Who Wrote These Savants Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 14 Savants Quotes as follows: