Being there Quote by Voltaire

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Either human intelligence ultimately owes its origin to mindless matter; or there is a Creator. It is strange that some people claim that it…

— John Lennox

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.

— William James

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.

— Edward Thorndike

We call ourselves Homo sapiens--man the wise--because our intelligence is so important to us. For thousands of years, we have tried to understand how…

— Stuart J. Russell

All we are is a grain of sand that has been imbued with intelligence.

— David Northrop

We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

If there is no intelligence in the universe, then the universe has created something greater than itself-for it has created you and me.

— Bruce Barton

We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational…

— C. S. Lewis

We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we've been living in cities, we've become more and more stupid, not…

— Sebastiao Salgado

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules,…

— Stanislav Grof

Intelligence is derived from two words

— J. Martin Klotsche