Quotes About Intelligence

will we no longer be the most intelligent being on earth

In altre parole, uno degli scopi fondamentali delle emozioni è fornirci una scala di valori, in modo da poter scegliere che cosa è importante, costoso, bello o prezioso. In assenza di emozioni tutto ci sembrerebbe uguale, quindi ci ritroveremmo nella situazione paralizzante di non riuscire a compiere una scelta. Gli scienziati stanno quindi cominciando a capire che le emozioni, lungi dall'essere un lusso, sono uno dei fondamenti dell'intelligenza.

I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence. Believe me, everything that we call chance today won't make sense anymore. To me it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.

Llegarán a superarnos los ordenadores en inteligencia? Ciertamente no hay nada en las leyes de la física que lo impida.

Back in the 1980s, there was enormous enthusiasm about gene therapy, i.e., repairing broken genes. There are at least 10,000 known genetic diseases afflicting the human race. There was a belief that science would enable us to rewrite the code of life, correcting the mistakes of Mother Nature. There was even talk that gene therapy might be able to enhance the human race as well, improving our health and intelligence at the genetic level.

The most complex object in the known universe, brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant to energise a computer the size of a city block to mimic your brain, and your brain does it with just 20 watts. So if someone calls you a dim bulb, that's a compliment.

Your laptop never learns—it is just as dumb today as it was yesterday or last year. But the human brain literally rewires itself after learning any task.

Life may seem pointless if we are fated to spend it staring stupidly at our ultra-intelligent progeny as they try to describe their ever more spectacular discoveries in baby-talk that we can understand.

Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it begins to simply reward those who reproduce the most and leave the intelligent to become an endangered species.

He's no idiot, in fact he's a genius... and that's as far from an idiot as you can get without reaching madness.

We'd be fools not to.

Evil is smart, boy. Never forget that." Zach was certain he wouldn't.

Why do smart people exist, if not to figure out convoluted problems?

What are smart people for if not to untangle tangled things?

Jednak?e m?drzy ludzie w tym w?a?nie celu maj? rozum, ?eby si? nim pos?ugiwa? w podobnie skomplikowanych przypadkach.

One must admit that even among intellectuals there are sometimes highly intelligent men; this cannot be denied. (100)

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.

She fixed him with a long careful, searching stare that was not devoid of irony's intelligent sparkle

Every true novelist listens for that suprapersonal wisdom, which explains why great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors. Novelists who are more intelligent than their books should go into another line of work.

It takes a very great intelligence to breathe logical meaning into meaningless ideas.

If Olga had been a little more foolish, she would have found herself quite pretty. But since she was an intelligent girl, she considered herself much uglier than she really was, for she was actually neither ugly nor pretty

Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.

išta nije shvatio i još danas nimalo ne shva?a važnost bezna?ajnosti. -Da, razumijem. Nepotrebno je biti briljantan. - Više nego nepotrebno. Štetno.

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