intelligence Quotes

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

Humans have existed only for the last 0.001 percent of cosmic time. All of which says that - unless the Homo sapiens brain is the one-and-only instance of cogitating machinery - nearly all the intelligence that's out there is beyond our level. And that intelligence is more than just a little bit beyond.

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.