On Intelligence

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
- Alvin Toffler

A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
- Charles F. Kettering, 1876 - 1958

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1896 - 1940

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
- George Bernard Shaw, 1856 - 1950

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
- Laurence J. Peter, 1919 - 1990

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
- Ambrose Bierce

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Here is a preliminary list of resources for people to find out more about Intelligent Design. Please feel free to put this on your own site. If you want, email me and I'll send you the HTML code to make this one step easier.
The neurobiology of intelligence
We went round and round on this well over a year ago.
Via David Heddle, I came across this announcement for a conference in Texas entitled “Intelligent Design in Business Practice.” From the announcement:

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1896 - 1940"

isn't that what causes (or demonstrates) cognitive disconnect, and that is the main current problem with R supporters - they hold 2+ opposed ideas and do not attempt to resolve the tension?

By david1947 (not verified) on 23 Oct 2006 #permalink