#cia

I see no priestly garments on you. There is no ephod on your belt. You presume to speak for Yahweh? You speak his name aloud so lightly? ↗

— Cliff Graham

#social-challenge #spiritual-standing #inspirational

If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world. ↗

— Claude Pepper

#better #country #election #generation #instead

Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to set aside, but those whom a person shares a sense of humor with are his closest friends. They are always there to make the biggest influence. ↗

— Criss Jami

#beliefs #best-friends #brain #daily #daily-life

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#intelligence

It’s not true I think all politicians are morons. Morons are far too intelligent to be politicians.
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— Jarod Kintz

#moron #politicians #politics #intelligence

Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress ↗

— Steve Grand

#control #cybernetics #intelligence

Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#intelligence

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe. ↗

— Karl Pearson

#apparently #carried #dealing #description #endless

Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#computers #diversity #robots #intelligence

All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion is unrequited. Surveys suggest that some 95 percent of Americans are “scientifically illiterate.” That’s just the same fraction as those African Americans, almost all of them slaves, who were illiterate just before the Civil War—when severe penalties were in force for anyone who taught a slave to read. Of course there’s a degree of arbitrariness about any determination of illiteracy, whether it applies to language or to science. But anything like 95 percent illiteracy is extremely serious. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#literacy #science #social-conditions #education