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

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk