"If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields."

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The brain, being analog, is able to grasp images so much better. The brain is just designed for comparing images and some patterns - patterns in space and patterns in time - which we do amazingly well. Computers can do it, too, but not in anything like the same kind of flexibility.

— Freeman Dyson