History Quotes / GeniusTheTransgression

-->-- ''The [[OnlySaneMan Klagen]] on attempted resurrectionism.

-->''"When I was in high school my teacher told me that there are more people alive today than have ever lived. Don't worry: she lied, then got cancer. (Not my fault.) We live atop a mountain of corpses. The Earth is swimming in humans, above and below the ground, so when I see you trying to raise the dead, I'm torn. On the one hand, I recognize your despair. On the other hand, [[OnlySaneMan do you really want to spend the rest of the week fending off a]] {{zombie apocalypse}} as the Earth vomits up her dead? [[NoodleIncident AGAIN?]] Come on, man, think this through: every time you try this, we end up fighting zombies. I hate zombies. Just put the syringe down."''

->Picture: Half page. A bird of paradise on a telephone pole, being pointedly ignored by the crows. It's wearing brass goggles.

->Geniuses form connections with things that aren't 'really' there for most people. Their entire essence screams to reduce reality to a handful of elegant equations that are obviously, self-evidently true. The Peerage exists almost entirely to fight this tendency, because once a Genius believes he's figured it out, he's mad. The light eats out the back of his eyes and he'll probably never see straight again.

->Stay humble. You're not a revolutionary scientist; you haven't figured it out. You're crazy just like the rest of us.

->Fuck Lemuria.

->Stay humble. You're not a revolutionary scientist; you haven't figured it out. You're crazy just like
the rest of us.