Human Intelligence Quotes - Page 4

• Nothing is truly unnatural, because everything that exists, including human intelligence, is a product of nature. If human intelligence can devise ways for the genes from two men to result in a child, their doing so is an entirely natural event.

  A.C. Grayling

  Children, Men, Two

  A.C. Grayling (2010). “The Reason of Things: Living with Philosophy”, p.150, Hachette UK

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• The object of pure Mathematic (is) that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Law, Unfolding, Humans

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• Suppose there are some things that we don't understand about the universe, but if you understand human intelligence and you understand the gaps in our abilities to think about things, maybe we can engineer in a computer more advanced intelligences that can help augment our ability to think.

  Edward Boyden

  Thinking, Gaps, Helping

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When J.J. [Abrams] called Lisa [Joy] and myself, he pitched us this idea of, what if we turn the structure around and started with the hosts. For us, that gave us a way to play with everything that we're interested in, all at once. It's the ultimate playground for us because we deal with questions about artificial intelligence, which is something I've long been fascinated by, but also human intelligence, or the lack thereof, human behavior, and interactive, immersive storytelling.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Play, Ideas, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• There is more uncertainty than usual about job futures because computers are replacing more and more human intelligence, and globalization is proceeding at an accelerating pace.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Jobs, Usual, Pace

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.

  Plato

  Sea, Use, Select

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• For one thing, studying language is by itself a part of a study of human intelligence that is, perhaps, the central aspect of human nature. And second, I think, it is a good model for studying other human properties, which ought to be studied by psychologists in the same way.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Way, Study

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Our failure was that our intelligence community thought [Saddam Hussein ] had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction. That was a mistake. There is fallibility in human intelligence and in human decisions.

  Colin Powell

  Mistake, Mass Destruction, Community

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• The whole of natural theologyresolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous proposition, That the cause or causesof order in the universe probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence.

  David Hume

  Simple, Order, Religion

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• The research reported on in our book "A=B", has moved a whole active field of mathematics from the province of human thought to the realm of computer-fodder. It is quite exciting to think about what other fields of pure mathematics, hitherto thought to be reserved to human intelligence, might be moved to that realm next. The goal is to put ourselves out of business completely, and the work is well underway.

  Herbert Wilf

  Book, Science, Thinking

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• Humanity today is not safe in the presence of humanity. The old cannibalism has given way to anonymous action in which the killer and the killed do not know each other, and in which,indeed, the very fact of mass death has the effect of making mass killing less reprehensible than the death of a single individual. In short, we have evolved in every respect except our ability to protect ourselves against human intelligence. Our knowledge is vast but does not embrace the workings of peace.

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, Humanity, Doe

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• We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

  Bob Graham

  Needs, Investment, Humans

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• During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.

  Bob Graham

  War, Aggravation, Listening

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• Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Letters, Stones

  Victor Hugo (1988). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 2”, Signet Classics

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• This harmony that human intelligence believes it discovers in nature - does it exist apart from that intelligence? No, without doubt, a reality completely independent of the spirit which conceives it, sees it or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so exterior as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us. But what we call objective reality is, in the last analysis, that which is common to several thinking beings, and could be common to all; this common part, we will see, can be nothing but the harmony expressed by mathematical laws.

  Henri Poincare

  Believe, Independent, Reality

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• Improve human intelligence to get Osama bin Laden.

  John McCain

  Osama Bin Laden, Bin Laden, Humans

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• I believe that the destructive nature of society that now threatens the existence of the entire human world has much to do with human intelligence. The way to overcome all human suffering-that also is through human intelligence.

  Dalai Lama

  Believe, Suffering, Overcoming

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• I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its nakedness, but the others are able to cover it with a veil so delicate, so daintily woven with small plausible lies, that there is some pleasure to be found in contemplating this ingenious work of the human intelligence.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Clever, Lying, People

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1896). “Recollections”, p.230, Library of Alexandria

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• People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary terms, it is as likely to do us in as to help us along.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  People, Helping, Adaptation

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• What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weaker go to the wall; conditions that put a premium upon the loyal alliance of capable men, upon self-restraint, patience, and decision. And the institution of the family, and the emotions that arise therein, the fierce jealousy, the tenderness for offspring, parental self-devotion, all found their justification and support in the imminent dangers of the young.

  H. G. Wells

  Strong, Wall, Men

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• He always reminded us that every atom in our bodies was once part of a distant star that had exploded. He talked about how evolution moves from simplicity toward complexity, and how human intelligence is the highest known expression of evolution. I remember him telling me that a frog's brain is much more complex than a star. He saw human consciousness as the first neuron of the universe coming to life and awareness. A spark in the darkness, waiting to spread to fire.

  Greg Iles

  Stars, Moving, Fire

  Greg Iles (2004). “The Footprints of God”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Atheist, Giving Up, Smart

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• One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

  Voltaire

  Simple, Enlightenment, Ends

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• How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.

  Robert M. Lindner

  Persistence, Errors, Justice

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• The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know how wide a circle of disturbance we produce in the harmonies of nature when we throw the smallest pebble into the ocean of organic life.

  George Perkins Marsh

  Life, Nature, Ocean

  George Perkins Marsh (1864). “Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action”, p.103, New York : C. Scribner

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