Ideas about the genius of nature (even more than of art), the alien strangeness of birds, the familiar rituals and bonds of parenthood ricochet through the gallery.
While Woods watched impassively, Mickelson speared himself with a dodgy swing at the short 12th, that glorious testimony to Dr Alister Mackenzie's architectural brilliance and the random genius of nature.
There really is not that much to see until I try to see it through Wendell's eyes, and then every bit of erosion becomes a tiny tragedy — or at least a human's mistake — and every bit of forest floor becomes a bit of the genius of nature.
Here is the apotheosis of the Japanese genius for hypnotizing nature into unnatural behavior.
As described memorably some time back in the New Yorker, the individual genius and perfectionist nature of Warren Warwick, a former leader of the institute, helped set the bar at a very high level.
Kant's solution to this apparent paradox is to postulate a capacity, which he calls "genius," by which "nature gives the rule to art" (§46, 307).
I wish Isaacson had had the courage to take another step back and, in the spirit of Einstein, ask the big underlying question: what do these feet-of-clay stories really tell us about Einstein's mind, and about the broader nature of genius?
Watts's revisionist line of thinking about the nature of genius is also backed up in certain quarters of contemporary neuroscience, psychology, and psychopathology, where genius is increasingly being seen as a social construct rather than an internal, innate quality.
Let's just say that his presence is quite a comment on the nature of genius.
Unfortunately, by its nature, individual genius is hard to contain within any generalisation.
