Quotes About Intelligence

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

Science is simply common sense at its best.

If Einstein was so smart how come people only call you 'Einstein' when you do something really stupid ?

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.

With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.

Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Oh, that Einstein, always skipping lectures... I certainly never would have thought he could do it.

I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.

It doesn't matter how smart you are, Enigma is always smarter.

Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

Real intelligence must be fiercely capable of investigating every aspect of existence, including the very process of knowledge that we call science .

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals

Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.