In science, as well as in other fields of human endeavor, there are two kinds of geniuses: the "ordinary" and the "magicians." An ordinary genius is a [person] that you and I would be just as good as, if we were only many times better. There is no mystery as to how his mind works. Once we understand what he has done, we feel certain that we, too, could have done it. It is different with the magicians. They are, to use mathematical jargon, in the orthogonal complement of where we are and the working of their minds is for all intents and purposes incomprehensible. Even after we understand what they have done, the process by which they have done it is completely dark.

Mark Kac

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A lot of people spend time pitching the solution, but they don't really explain the problem, and it should be so crisp and clear what the problem is you're solving that the solution almost just floats from that.

Jess Lee

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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. And yet the history of science is a history of that ambition refusing to accept the universe's indifference.

Jacob Bronowski — Science and Human Values

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