Application Quote by Humphry Davy

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as…

— Henri Poincare

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.

— Pindar

genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man, the strongest…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

— Otto Weininger

It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius of discovery…

— Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.

— Enrico Fermi

“A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task.”

— Ernst Jünger

If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the…

— Melvin Calvin

Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

— Matthew Arnold

A gifted experimentalist, and theoretician, in the best Newtonian tradition... His contributions to quantum measurements, and elucidative teachings on quantum mechanics, have not yet…

— Willis Lamb

This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable…

— Stanford Moore

A genius is a man who has two great ideas.

— Jacob Bronowski