Human Intelligence Quotes
83 quotes by 69 authors
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You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.
— Philip Roth
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People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active,…
— H.G. Wells
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Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first…
— Arundhati Roy
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He always reminded us that every atom in our bodies was once part of a distant star that had exploded. He talked about how evolution…
— Greg Iles
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Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant…
— Ruth Hurmence Green
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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is…
— Voltaire
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Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful…
— Michael Crichton
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Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence - in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement - wins hands…
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human…
— Stephen Hawking
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We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.
— Buzz Aldrin
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Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.
— Mitch Kapor
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No one holds a permanent speed advantage in the market due to the limits of human intelligence and vision. Your advantage comes from your ability…
— Guo Guangchang
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We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This…
— John Sununu
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But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a…
— Norman McLaren
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We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.
— Bob Graham
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During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.
— Bob Graham
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Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier.
— Victor Hugo
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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
— Stephen Leacock
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Information Superhighway is really an acronym for 'Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing And Transferring Information On National Systems, Unleashing Practically Every Rebellious Human…
— Kevin Kwaku
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