Arrogance Quote by John Rachel

“As you are reading these words, you are taking part in one of the wonders of the natural world. For you and I belong…

— Steven Pinker

“although science interests me just because of its efforts to escape from anthropomorphic knowledge, I am nonetheless convinced that our imagination cannot be anything…

— Italo Calvino

“...genius, having the widest experience of the human intelligence, can best understand the ideas most directly in opposition to those which form the foundation…

— Marcel Proust

Imagine a life-form whose brainpower is to ours as ours is to a chimpanzee’s. To such a species, our highest mental achievements would be…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I racked my brains to discover some sense in the events I had witnessed. I needed this intellectual exercise to escape from the despair…

— Pierre Boulle

“The flip side of this reality is that our big brains, advanced as they are, come with an array of complex shortcomings and are…

— David DiSalvo

“Analogies fail, but I am capable of behaving like an eight-armed cephalopod while protesting the innocence of my two hands on the table.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“Faced with the mind-surpassing grandeur of the universe, we cannot but admit that there is meaning which is greater than man.”

— Abraham Heschel

“...our brains are minuscule fragments of the universe, much too small to hold all the facts of the world but not too idle to…

— Valentino Braitenberg

“Creative intelligences, being evolved arrived late in the universe and therefore cannot be responsible for designing it.”

— Richard Dawkins

“Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into…

— Gene Wolfe

“It has never yet been supposed, that all the facts of nature, and all the means of acquiring precision in the computation and analysis…

— Marquis de Condorcet