Genius is knowing to stop
Genius means the exceptionally great capacity of the mind or any person who possesses such power of mind to think and invent something new. In this sense, men like Newton, Eienstein, Ramanujan and Samanta Chandrasekhar were all men of genius. But while applying one's genius 10 thinking new thoughts and inventing new things one will do well to kn w where to stop. In other words, a genius must be awre of his human limitations. We can take a couple of examples from the realm of modern science and technology and analyse them to bring out the full import of the maxim. The atom bombs and various nuclear warheads are undoubtedly the products of human genius but their application will be disastrous to our life, civilization and culture. The computor, another proudct of human genius is going to displace the human mind. This is an equally frightening prospect. Hence, the spirit of the inaxim is incontroversible.
Genius means the exceptionally great capacity of the mind or any person who possesses such power of mind to think and invent something new. In this sense, men like Newton, Eienstein, Ramanujan and Samanta Chandrasekhar were all men of genius. But while applying one's genius 10 thinking new thoughts and inventing new things one will do well to kn w where to stop. In other words, a genius must be awre of his human limitations. We can take a couple of examples from the realm of modern science and technology and analyse them to bring out the full import of the maxim. The atom bombs and various nuclear warheads are undoubtedly the products of human genius but their application will be disastrous to our life, civilization and culture. The computor, another proudct of human genius is going to displace the human mind. This is an equally frightening prospect. Hence, the spirit of the inaxim is incontroversible.