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Discover Ludwig"lone genius" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to refer to someone who operates independently and has great skill in a certain field. For example, "Thomas Edison was a lone genius who revolutionized the world with his incredible inventions."
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Is the crowd wiser than a lone genius?
Metzger is no lone genius with a chisel, though.
There's no lone genius who figures it all out and sends down the magic formula.
DESPITE the enduring myth of the lone genius, innovation does not take place in isolation.
They encourage the idea that the typical manner of progress in science is the breakthrough of a lone genius.
"Being a lone genius is definitely more marketable, but I don't think art works in that way," she says.
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"While we are showing more than one-third of Vermeer's work, we are not showing him as a lone, solitary genius, but rather within the context of the Delft School".
Lone geniuses are out.
Skyscrapers and airports do not get built by lone geniuses; they require depths of complex administrative and professional expertise.
They also don't give credit to the wide, collaborative networks of researchers whose collective efforts lead to breakthroughs as much as the work of lone geniuses.
In reality, while lone geniuses and breakthroughs do occur, incremental progress and collaboration are more important in increasing our understanding of nature.
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