Accidents Quote by Isaac Asimov Download Open image “Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.” — Isaac Asimov ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accidents Advantage Biology Evolution Intelligence
Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The entire evolutionary record on our planet, particularly the record contained in fossil endocasts, illustrates a progressive tendency toward intelligence. There is nothing mysterious… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“Was intelligence an inevitability, a consequence of evolution? Bacteria succeeded without a brain, possessing survival skills that rivaled their biological hosts. So why should… — Todd Crawshaw Copy Share Image
“Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it begins to simply reward those who reproduce the most… — Mike Judge Copy Share Image
“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger and trouble.... Nature never appeals to intelligence… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Intelligence is that aspect of human cognition that we haven't managed to emulate yet. — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Intelligence is present everywhere in our bodies . . . our own inner intelligence is far superior to any we can try to substitute from the outside. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration - a stagnation!” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“It might seem to you, Peter, that a truck driver, one step above an ape in your view, can't remember. But truck drivers can… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When life is so harsh that a man loses all hope in himself, then he raises his eyes to a shining rock, worshipping it,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Human beings can tolerate an immortal robot, for it doesn't matter how long a machine lasts, but they cannot tolerate an immortal human being… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“if people believe this, they would act on that belief. Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
I made out with a homeless guy by accident. I had no idea -- he was really tan, he had no shoes on. I… — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can… — Annie Ernaux Copy Share Image
In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump… — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Despite my mentors advice that I would never go to heaven fishing with a weighted nymph and a float, I took it up. (As… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
