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“The idea of using extraordinary force does not mean more of the same effort. Extraordinary action results from out-of-the-box thinking.”

— Gerald A. Michaelson

Force has no place where there is need of skill

— Herodotus

...I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind…

— Charles Darwin

“To develop a strength in any activity requires certain natural talents.”

— Donald O. Clifton

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

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.

— Samuel Johnson

“Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was. (Enoch Root observes six-year-old Isaac Newton)”

— Neal Stephenson

“Only that which is innate is genuine and will hold water; and every man who wants to achieve something, whether in practical life, in…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

— Honore de Balzac

Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't extend to…

— Warren Buffett

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is,…

— Gustave Flaubert

“While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of…

— David Hume