It was an almost equal mixture of individual genius and debatable defending.

Breakthroughs take years, even lifetimes, of work, and are usually less about individual genius than about building upon a collective foundation of knowledge.

The individual genius was replaced with the cog.

In these instances, antiquated ideas of individual genius influence how scholars look at issues of attribution and tenure.

For these socialists, the intuition of the masses in action can have more genius in it than the work of the greatest individual genius.