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"Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence."
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"There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea."
"Solving a problem is intelligence. Preventing a problem is wisdom."
"Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that, they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise."
"One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it for me?"
"Were you born stupid, Heinrich, or did you have to study?"
"Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, the selective advantage of intelligence becomes more uncertain."
"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."
"Dealing with one who feels smarter than you,let him assume that you ain't smarter than him."
"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"
"Intelligence is not knowledge, but it is a state of mind."
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"And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry."
"Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing."
"We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography."
"Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession."
"I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule."
"These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science."
"But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money."
"Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence."
"I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell."
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