It's Not The Genius Who Is 100

A Particularly Fine Head On A Man Usually Means That He Is Stupid; Particularly Deep Philosophers Are Usually Shallow Thinkers; In Literature, Talents Not Much Above The Average Are Usually Regarded By Their Contemporaries As Geniuses.

You See How Wrong I Go, How Ridiculous I'm Making Myself In Your Eyes By Keeping On Guessing Wrong Like This! Doesn't That Help You To Come Out With It? Come On Now!

There Is, In Short, No Great Idea That Stupidity Could Not Put To Its Own Uses [....] The Truth By Comparison, Has Only One Appearance And Only One Path, And Is Always At A Disadvantage.

His Answers Were Quite Often Like That. When She Spoke Of Beauty, He Spoke Of The Fatty Tissue Supporting The Epidermis. When She Mentioned Love, He Responded With The Statistical Curve That Indicates The Automatic Rise And Fall In The Annual Birthrate. When She Spoke Of The Great Figures In Art, He Traced The Chain Of Borrowings That Links These Figures To One Another.

Mathematics Is The Bold Luxury Of Pure Reason, One Of The Few That Remain Today.