Quotes About Intellect

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so easily fall prey to nonsense.

A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to safeguard their existence on this earth.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science.

Science is a particular way of thinking about things.

I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.

It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

Some proofs command assent. Others woo and charm the intellect. They evoke delight and an overpowering desire to say, 'Amen, Amen'.

I am not a scientist.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world.

Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.