"Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it."
- Criss Jami
"Only a mind that is deeply stirred can utter something noble and beyond the power of others."
- Seneca
"The fun thing about insanity is that it is often so very hard to tell it apart from brilliance."
- Evan Currie
"Oppenheimer’s theorizing was so startlingly original — so far in advance of the corroborating observations and so far off the beaten track of astrophysical research — that his colleagues’ ignorance co..."
- Algis Valiunas