If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.
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"Darwin's Middle Road", p. 66Stephen Jay Gould
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The successful scientist and the raving crank are separated by the quality of their inspirations. But I suspect that this amounts, in practice, to a difference, not so much in ability to notice analogies as in ability to reject foolish analogies and pursue helpful ones.
Richard Dawkins
What is essential here is the presence of the spirit of dialogue, which is in short, the ability to hold many points of view in suspension, along with a primary interest in the creation of common meaning.
David Bohm
A civil war occurring in a country, where foreigners reside and carry on trade under treaty stipulations is necessarily fruitful of complaints of the violation of neutral rights. All such collisions tend to excite misapprehensions, and possibly to produce mutual reclamations between nations which have a common interest in preserving peace and friendship.
Abraham Lincoln
Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.
APJ Abdul Kalam
I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
Werner Herzog
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