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

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius. – Simone de Beauvoir

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. – Christian Nevell Bovee