Stephen Jay Gould Quotes

I probably have genius. But no talent.

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

I have very little patience with children.

I'm impatient sometimes.

I am not patient.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

Genius does not herd with genius.

… there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

I'm not a very patient person in general.

People who are geniuses, once they get going, you really have to keep up.

I was a very impulsive, emotional kid.

I have an aggressive streak of my own.

I don't like to say it, but I don't care, I'm a real-life genius.

Shakespeare wrote, Einstein thought, Ataturk built.

But I don't think Art's an Einstein - he likes tugging ears, biting people and burping too much to be a genius.

It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals.

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness

You can't have a masterpiece without madness.

For me to say I wasn't a genius I'd just be lying to you and to myself

I think that all creative people are a little bit nuts.

Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced.