Common sense is very uncommon.
The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that's the most interesting: the part that doesn't go according to what you expected.
Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
I've had a chance to see something that is way outside everybody else's frame of reference and gives a perspective that is very different from everyone else's.
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
Genius: the superhuman in man.
I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
You are the smartest lunatic I have ever seen in my whole life.
Long took it as a compliment.
