Gifted Quote by Neal Stephenson

“Newton was born on Christmas Day, 1642, so tiny that, as his mother told him years later, he would have fit into a quart…

— Carl Sagan

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.

— Neal Stephenson

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works,…

— Joseph Priestley

Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

— Albert Einstein

"Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world…

— Joseph-Louis Lagrange

“Talent is natural but special inborn abilities”

— Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“[…] his own father told him that talent is sort of a dark gift, that talent is its own expectation: it is there from…

— David Foster Wallace

Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics. ...

— W. W. Rouse Ball

“Talent is like a little seed; when nurtured, it will flourish.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“No True Talent is fully organic. Yet the superior talented have not only control of study but that extra special, little gift at birth--fueled…

— Kurt Cobain

“Whether we listen to a sonata of Beethoven’s, watch highlight reels of Michael Jordan, or learn a law of Newton’s, we view extraordinary human…

— Sean Patrick

“In his secretiveness he didn’t merely resemble Newton, but actively exceeded him.”

— Bill Bryson