Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

天才不过是一些普通的官能，经过更大的磨练而成。没有惊人的方法去做惊人的事情。所有惊人的东西都是由普通材料制成的。

Genius is of no country.

天才无国籍。

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

天才对于一个不知道如何打理头发的女人来说用处不大。

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

天才是疯狂的多种形式之一。

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

天才是百分之一的灵感加上百分之九十九的汗水。

Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available.

天才是罕见的，因为成为天才的方法还没有出现。

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

天才很少能够描述自己的过程。

Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.

天才很少为人所知，因为它是一种努力工作的伟大能力。

Genius is sorrow's child.

天才是悲哀的孩子。

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

天才是迫使人类的惰性去学习的东西。

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

天才是对自己所受的训练作出有效反应的能力。

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

天才是把事情看清楚的天赋。

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

天才是死人的才能。

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

天才是智慧之眼，是思想之翼;它总是走在时代的前面，是它所先于的那一代人的先驱。

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

天才也许有其局限性，但愚蠢并非如此。