Intellectual Quotes - Page 26

• We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.

  John Hurt

  Men, Racing, Matter

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however. But Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

  Uma Thurman

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Buddhism

  Interview with Laura Yorke, Reader's Digest, July 2006.

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• Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.

  Henry Rollins

  Sloth, Cynicism

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• I will never do nudity. I don't care how dark and intellectual the role could be, you know...I don't care if I frickin' could get an Oscar for it, I'm not going to do it. Those accolades mean nothing to me. I don't think people deserve to see what's under my clothing. That's only for my next husband-ha-ha-ha.

  Jessica Simpson

  Husband, Mean, Dark

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.

  Penn Jillette

  Art, Together, Purpose

  "Crowdfunder: Why Penn Jillette Hopes to Be the Anti-Lindsay Lohan". Interview with Matt Patches, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 30, 2013.

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• All forms of birth--physical, intellectual, spiritual or emotional--bring one to the depths. The power to give birth originates in the creative life spirit birthing all, the seen and the unseen.

  Amy Wright

  Spiritual, Emotional, Giving

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• My approach to violence is that if it's pertinent, if that's the kind of movie you're making, then it has a purposeI think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process. I like to think it's not violence for the sake of violence and in this particular film, it's actually violence for the annihilation of violence.

  Guy Ritchie

  Thinking, Sake, Violence

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• I'm not like a high intellectual.

  Billy West

  Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2008.

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• But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually.

  Marvin Minsky

  Science, Discovery, Astrology

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• Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does

  Edward James Olmos

  New York, People, Doe

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• Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Sports, Science, Discipline

  "Chaos: Making a New Science". Book by James Gleick, p. 70, 1987.

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• Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may be catalogued for purposes of education, they may be illustrated by arresting experiments, by numbers and magnitudes which startle or fatigue the imagination but they will form no familiar portion of the intellectual furniture of ordinary men unless they be connected, however remotely, with the conduct of ordinary life.

  Arthur Balfour

  Education, Science, Men

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• We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context-in the context of the effects of scientific thought on every kind of thought. We must teach it as an intellectual pursuit rather than as a body of tricks.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Teaching, Science, History

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• Truth and falsity, indeed understanding, is not necessarily something purely intellectual, remote from feelings and attitudes. ... It is in the total conduct of men rather than in their statements that truth or falsehood lives, more in what a man does, in his real reaction to other men and to things, in his will to do them justice, to live at one with them. Here lies the inner connection between truth and justice. In the realm of behavior and action, the problem recurs as to the difference between piece and part.

  Max Wertheimer

  Life, Attitude, Real

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• How strange it would be if the final theory were to be discovered in our lifetimes! The discovery of the final laws of nature will mark a discontinuity in human intellectual history, the sharpest that has occurred since the beginning of modern science in the seventeenth century. Can we now imagine what that would be like?

  Steven Weinberg

  Science, Discovery, Law

  Steven Weinberg (1992). “Dreams of a Final Theory”, Pantheon

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• I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that seem to be qualitatively different. Geometry was the first exciting course I remember. Instead of memorizing facts, we were asked to think in clear, logical steps. Beginning from a few intuitive postulates, far reaching consequences could be derived, and I took immediately to the sport of proving theorems.

  Steven Chu

  Sports, Adventure, Science

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• Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Eye, Science, Hands

  Nicholas Murray Butler (1895). “What Knowledge is of Most Worth? ...”

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• A fool must now and then be right, by chance

  William Cowper

  Truth, Humorous, Intelligence

  "Conversation" l. 96 (1782)

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• Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about physical processes.

  Richard Hamming

  Sports, Interesting, Information

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• To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is an animal.

  Bertrand Russell

  Animal, Mind, Four

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.230, Routledge

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• As was predicted at the beginning of the Human Genome Project, getting the sequence will be the easy part as only technical issues are involved. The hard part will be finding out what it means, because this poses intellectual problems of how to understand the participation of the genes in the functions of living cells.

  Sydney Brenner

  Mean, Science, Cells

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• She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not take seriously the intellectual decline. Having given up the Empire and the mass production of industrial goods, Britain's future lay in its scientific and artistic pre-eminence. Mrs Thatcher will be long remembered for the damage she has done.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Regret, Science, Reflection

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• We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind of the investigator. We must have a robust faith and yet not believe.

  Claude Bernard

  Faith, Believe, Science

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• All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Communication, Race, Religion

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and elevate it are intellectual slaveholders, keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction.

  Bill Maher

  Mean, Thinking, Religion

  "Religulous". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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