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"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reasons."
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"Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch."
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"Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence."
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"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."
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"Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt."
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"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."
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"It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges."
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"You can not argue with stupid but you can certainly play with it."
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"The Knowledgeable has the intelligent answer but only the intelligent one asks for a knowledgeable question."
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"Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definition."
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"Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity."
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"I have detected disturbances in the wash.''The wash?''The space-time wash.''Are we talking about some sort of Vogon laundromat, or what are we talking about?''Eddies in the space-time continuum.''Ah...is he. Is he.''What?''Er, who is Eddy, then, exactly?"
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"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
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"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
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"Just because you see something, it doesn't mean to say it's there. And if you don't see something, it doesn't mean to say it's not there. It's only what your senses bring to your attention."
Awareness
"Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command."
Leadership
"I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
Happiness
"What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
Happiness
"I'm a scientist and I know what constitutes proof. But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that."
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"Aberystwyth (n.)A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for."
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"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."
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