intelligence Quotes

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence.

Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.

Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.

When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.