I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. – John F. Kennedy, in an address to Nobel Prize winners

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. – Henry Ward Beecher

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. – W. H. Auden