Quotes about Intelligence

“We have this yearning to know the answers to the big questions about space and why we're here; we can't evolve fast enough to figure these answers out on our own, but we can do it through artificial intelligence. But there's also some very scary downsides that could come if we don't put the right safety precautions in there.”

“Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.”

“Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.”

“As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.”

“By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.”

“Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe.”

“An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.”

“Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.”

“I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.”

“The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.”

“In mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is simply the Y chromosome, which has nothing to do with intelligence.”

“There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.”

“Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.”

“The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.”

“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”

“Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.”

“Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.”

“Genius always finds itself a century too early.”

“Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.”

“Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.”

“By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.”