Quotes about Intelligence

The chance of receiving a signal from a civilization exactly as advanced as we are should be minuscule. If they were even a little behind us, they would lack the technological capability to communicate with us at all. So the most likely signal would come from a civilization much more advanced.

If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as human rights? How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder? What further properties must he show before religious missionaries must consider him worthy of attempts at conversion?

The Cosmos may be densely populated with intelligent beings. But the Darwinian lesson is clear: There will be no humans elsewhere. Only here. Only on this small planet. We are a rare as well as an endangered species. Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

Paid product endorsements, especially by real or purported experts, constitute a steady rainfall of deception. They betray contempt for the intelligence of their customers. They introduce an insidious corruption of popular attitudes about scientific objectivity.

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

Those mothers with hereditary large pelvises were able to bear large-brained babies who because of their superior intelligence were able to compete successfully in adulthood with the smaller-brained offspring of mothers with smaller pelvises.

Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.

To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

The higher the intelligence, the more faith, and the less credulity; Gabriel rejects more than we, but out-believes us all.

What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'