American patriotic Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

“Traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments…

— John Brockman

“The issue is not indifference to established knowledge; it’s the emergence of a positive hostility to such knowledge. This is new in American culture,…

— Thomas M. Nichols

America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be.…

— Orson Scott Card

Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.

— Jesse Ball

Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low…

— Susan Jacoby

There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world in science…

— Edward Condon

There's a big anti-intellectual strain in the American south, and there always has been. We're not big on thought.

— Donna Tartt

“Allow intelligent design into science textbooks, lecture halls, and laboratories, and the cost to the frontier of scientific discovery—the frontier that drives the economies…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“You American intellectuals—you want so desperately to feel besieged and persecuted!”

— Günter Grass

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy;…

— Carl Sagan

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Americans love technology, like jet planes and hot rods and televisions. It's a real conflict between the denial of, "gee this is going to…

— Howard Rheingold