Cranioklepty Quotes

“When it came to the definition of genius, the ultimate measure could never really be the skull - the measure was always the writing, the music, the art itself.”
― Colin Dickey, Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius

“There had been no contradiction between a man of science and a man of religion. They provided different means to the same goal: understanding the works of God.”
― Colin Dickey, Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius

“Non omnis moriar. The line, from the end of Horace’s odes, translates as “Not all of me shall die,” which Neukomm obviously meant as a reference to the lasting musical genius of his mentor.”
― Colin Dickey, Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius