“I think the Titanic disaster has parallels today. The closest think I can think of is the silicon chip.. We're all kind of bowing to this computer god, thinking it's going to fix everything and we're geniuses for inventing this. And, you know, I just think we should pay attention to disasters of the past.” ThinkingKnowsShouldKindI CanTodayPastPayAttentionGeniusComputerDisasterAll KindsPay AttentionClosestChipsParallelsInventingSilicon Author:Billy Zane
“As the mental endowment of a man varies with the organisation of his accumulated experiences, the better endowed he is, the more readily will he be able to remember his whole past, everything that he has ever thought or heard, seen or done, perceived or felt, the more completely in fact will he be able to reproduce his whole life. Universal remembrance of all its experiences, therefore, is the surest, most general, and most easily proved mark of a genius.” MenDoneWholeFactsAblePastRememberFeltHeardGeniusUniversalMarkWhole LifeRemembranceVaryOrganisationEndowment Book:Sex & Character Source: Sex & Character
“Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.” ThinkingMenWorldMayWarFactsTodayPastFacesCertainCreationGeniusTasksMethodCompetitionAffairInternationalDisasterSecureWar Of The WorldsConsiderationAbandonCooperationStakesImmensePeacemakingColossalInternational AffairsFuture Thinking Author:Albert Einstein
“The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as the true poet is he who detects the divine in the casual; and we somewhat suspect the depth of his insight into the past who cannot recognize the godlike of to-day under that disguise in which it always visits us.” ThinkingPastEventsDivinePoetGeniusHistoricalDepthInsightSuspectsDisguiseCasualGodlike Book:My Study Windows Source: My Study Windows
“The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was not a science-fiction voyage into the future as much as a plunge into the past.” PastCultureFictionHeardGeniusScience FictionCommentJustifiedVoyagesPlungeLeonardo Author:Lucio Russo
“The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child of Newton's genius. The new attitude is well illustrated by the anecdote of the apple, a legend spread by Voltaire, one of the most active and vehement erasers of the past. ... The need to build the myth of an ex nihilo creation of modern science gave rise to much impassioned rhetoric.” ThinkingNeedsWellsChildrenLongAgePastForceConsciousnessAttitudeModernCreationGeniusSpreadActiveMythApplesCollectivesLegendsRhetoricExesNewtonModern ScienceAnecdotesGravitationCollective ConsciousnessErasersImpassionedVehementNew Attitude Author:Lucio Russo