Those whom nature destined to make her disciples have no need of teachers. Bacon, Descartes, Newton — these tutors of the human race had no need of tutors themselves, and what guides could have led them to those places where their vast genius carried them? Ordinary teachers could only have limited their understanding by confining it to their own narrow capabilities. With the first obstacles, they learned to exert themselves and made the effort to traverse the immense space they moved through. If it is necessary to permit some men to devote themselves to the study of the sciences and the arts, that should be only for those who feel in themselves the power to walk alone in those men's footsteps and to move beyond them. It is the task of this small number of people to raise monuments to the glory of the human mind.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: progress genius scientists newton bacon descartes giants
Dachux: It’s not like in the old days where you could kill a hogre or two, and nobody asked questions.
C.D. SutherlandTags: nostalgia giants species-relations
Nature intends all men and women to be mental and spiritual giants, and does not intend that any one should follow the will of another.
Christian D. LarsonTags: nature spiritual will mental giants intends
Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than music would be what it is if Bach, Beethoven and Wagner had never lived. The world as we know it is the product of its geniuses—and there may be evil as well as beneficent genius—and to deny that fact, is to stultify all history, whether it be that of the intellectual or the economic world.
Norman Robert CampbellTags: science life music world history economics genius scientists intellect isaac-newton newton beethoven ludwig-van-beethoven richard-wagner wagner galileo bach giants geniuses galileo-galilei beneficent johann-sebastian-bach lavoisier lavoisier-antione-lavoisier
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