Quotes About Intelligence

Science is not an intelligence test. Intuition is important, knowing what kind of questions to ask. The other thing is a passion for getting to the core of the problem.

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter.

Science has great skills, great reasoning and great intelligence in combining effects. It knows HOW to do many things but it admittedly does not know the WHY of anything.

Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.

For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.

Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.

The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.

One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.

It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more successful, because it was thinking not like a mathematician.

Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.

Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

The mind is an evolved computer program.

Thought, then, is the execution of this computer code.

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

Artificial Intelligence is creating a mind, hopefully as pure a mind as possible, for a computer.