Homer, Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, Mozart, and Tolstoy; Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Curie, and Einstein. What do these world-famous figures in the arts and sciences have in common?--apart from the ...

What about composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? Many would agree both were geniuses. But what people don't agree on is what that word "genius" really means. University of Washington geology professor ...

When Eric Weiner sat down to write his new book he had to tackle a big question first: How do you define genius? "That's not as easy as it sounds," he tells NPR's Rachel Martin. "I have a slightly ...

“In ancient Roman mythology, genius was thought of as something outside of yourself, a soul that connected you to the divine and enabled you to produce or create,” shares Pontish Yeramyan, founder and ...

I dentifying genius is a dicey venture. Consider, for example, this ranking of “The Top 10 Geniuses” I recently stumbled across on Listverse.com. From first to last place, here are the honorees: ...