“With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.” PeopleMayEvidenceBrilliantPlatoPlato SHaughtiness Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Even a brilliant research scientist can waste his or her efforts, in [Stephan Hawking's] case on theoretically impossible lines of research, if he or she rejects clear evidence pointing to God.” IfsLinesEffortCasesClearImpossibleWasteResearchEvidenceScientistScaryBrilliantRejectsPointing Author:Hugh Ross
“Louis Brandeis actually changes his mind about women's suffrage because he works with these brilliant women in the women's suffrage movement like Josephine Goldmark, his sister-in-law, where he writes a Brandeis brief which convinced the court to uphold maximum hour laws for women by collecting all these facts and empirical evidence.” WritingMindFactsLawHoursMovementEvidenceCourtConvincedBrilliantMaximumCollectingIn-lawsSuffrageSister In LawLouis BrandeisWomen's SuffrageEmpirical EvidenceSuffrage Movement Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“Steve Jobs was not an engineer: He was a brilliant individual with this ability to see around corners, to see things that other people couldn't see. I've learned over the years in the Apple that there are some really talented people who can take the same evidence, the same facts, and look at them and see them in a way that interprets those facts entirely different than most people do.” PeopleDifferentIndividualAbilityEvidenceBrilliant Author:John Sculley
“There was a courtroom scene where my son is convicted of killing Kevin Spacey's character. I find the bloody T-shirt and realize my husband did it. I get up the courage to take the shirt and send it to the police as evidence. I go out of the house for the first time. There was all this stuff I had to do that became quite truncated, because they slimmed down the movie. I understand the American Beauty is brilliant without all that stuff, but for me, personally, it was hard to see all that go.” CharacterHouseRealizingSonSceneHusbandEvidenceFirst TimePoliceKillingBrilliantShirtsMy HusbandMy SonBloodyCourtroom Author:Allison Janney