Quoted in "Saint Paul," interview with John Aldridge, The Guardian (2005-04-10)
“A genius is someone who sees the big picture of everything presented before them—They can predict how it’s going to turn out in the end and what steps have to be taken to make it so.”
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Part 4: "The Abacus and the Rose" (p. 98)
Science and Human Values (1956, 1965)
Context: Nature is more subtle, more deeply intertwined and more strangely integrated than any of our pictures of her — than any of our errors. It is not merely that our pictures are not full enough; each of our pictures in the end turns out to be so basically mistaken that the marvel is that it worked at all.
“Predictability is not how things will go, but how they can go.”
Kalam (2018)

Source: Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
"Re: The NAACP is Insane!" (21 February 2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6FX8IMw-uM

Quote from Otto Dix, 1891-1969, p. 280; as cited in 'Portfolios', Alexander Dückers; in German Expressionist Prints and Drawings - Essays Vol 1.; published by Museum Associates, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California & Prestel-Verlag, Germany, 1986, p. 80