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"The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence."
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"Your EQ (emotional quotient) is your capacity to recognize, discriminate, and label emotions accurately and interpret them to help guide your thinking and behavior."
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"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."
"The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that."
"I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence."
"A man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole human horizon and the horizon of an object-glass."
"Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity."
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
"Sometimes people think you're smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else."
"My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense."
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"May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life."
"The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence."
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