Ability Quote by Mikhail Botvinnik

Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed…

— Alexander Alekhine

I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!

— Emanuel Lasker

One interesting indication of Capablanca's greatness is that to non-chess players his name was better known than the names of all other chess masters…

— Fred Reinfeld

He can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment and in the most…

— Max Euwe

Poor Capablanca! Thou wert a brilliant technician, but no philosopher. Thou wert not capable of believing that in chess, another style could be victorious…

— Max Euwe

But the thing that was great about Capablanca was that he really spoke his mind, he said what he believed was true, he said…

— Bobby Fischer

I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course…

— James Marsh

He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until…

— Douglas Adams

He knew by heart every last minute crack on its surface. He had made maps of the ceiling and gone exploring on them; rivers,…

— Josephine Tey

“Nevertheless his prodigious intellectual powers persisted unabated. In 1696, the Swiss mathematician Johann Bernoulli challenged his colleagues to solve an unresolved issue called the…

— Carl Sagan

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything that the…

— Nicholas Murray Butler

Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the…

— Nikola Tesla