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  • Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.

    Leon Krier (2009). “The Architecture of Community”, p.136, Island Press
  • In the 1990s, human intelligence gathering was seriously neglected.

  • Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay.

    Wind   Play   Grace  
    Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company
  • 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.

  • Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.

    FaceBook post by SirKenRobinson from Jul 19, 2012
  • In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

    Math   Ideas   Issues  
    Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.72, Simon and Schuster
  • It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is dazzled by the clearest objects of nature; as the owl is dazzled by the light of the sun. Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths, but to the weakness of human intelligence; yet the slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.

    Christian   Light   Doubt  
    Saint Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Way Publishing (2014). “The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition”, p.59, Catholic Way Publishing
  • Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.

    Roger A. Caras (1990). “Cat is Watching”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
  • The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and indeed little belief in its existence.

  • Improve human intelligence to get Osama bin Laden.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the ability to fly as morally valuable per se. If we were fish, we would proclaim the ability to live underwater as morally valuable per se. But apart from our obviously self-interested proclamations, there is nothing morally valuable per se about human intelligence.

    Self   Bird   Underwater  
  • Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

    Animal   Tests   Compare  
    "Top Scientific Minds Declare That We Are Just One Among Many Animals" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.
  • Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

  • Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

    Mean   Years   Eras  
    "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era". Vernor Vinge's remarks presented at the VISION-21 Symposium sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center and the Ohio Aerospace Institute, edoras.sdsu.edu. March 30-31, 1993.
  • What AI could do is essentially be a power tool that magnifies human intelligence and gives us the ability to move our civilization forward. It might be curing disease, it might be eliminating poverty. Certainly it should include preventing environmental catastrophe. If AI could be instrumental to all those things, then I would feel it was worthwhile.

    "Intelligent robots don't need to be conscious to turn against us". Interview with Guia Marie Del Prado, www.businessinsider.com. August 5, 2015.
  • The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

    Islands   Museums   Gold  
  • 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.

    Simple   Order   Religion  
  • 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.

  • Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.

    Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.43, Univ of California Press
  • When you think of intelligence, don't think of a college professor; think of human beings as opposed to chimpanzees. If you don't have human intelligence, you're not even in the game.

  • Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is what I have formulated before: Everything is a symbol of a symbol, and a symbol of what? Of mind.

    Entry for December 30, 1850, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.
  • Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.

    Michael Crichton (2012). “The Andromeda Strain”, p.194, Vintage
  • If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.

    Aldous Huxley (2009). “Point Counter Point”, p.108, Random House
  • Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years.

    Years   Track   Machines  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • In order that the relations between science and the age may be what they ought to be, the world at large must be made to feel that science is, in the fullest sense, a ministry of good to all, not the private possession and luxury of a few, that it is the best expression of human intelligence and not the abracadabra of a school, that it is a guiding light and not a dazzling fog.

  • We took out the safe haven in Afghanistan, but now there is, undoubtedly, a larger safe haven and we must rise to this occasion in collaboration and with alliances to confront it, and invest in the future much better human intelligence so we know what the next steps are.

    The CBS Democratic debate, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2015.
  • There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over.

    Real   Computer   Danger  
    Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 18, 2001.
  • 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.

    Source: www.egonzehnder.com
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