#intel

I think it is the duty of all human beings, as intelligent and communicative beings, to learn all the ideas thought up before ours and use them as a means to think up new ones. ↗

— Jonathan Culver

#human-beings #humans #ideas #intelligence #learning

If god meant for people to talk into cellphones, he would've put our mouths on the side of our heads. ↗

— Devon Sampson

#intelligent-design #design

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#id #intelligent-design #religion #religion-and-science #science

[T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light of the Scripture. Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, so even though men wrote the book, and God made the rock and God gave us minds that have found ways to tell how old it is, we still choose to believe the Scripture. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#religion #willful-ignorance #design

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#science #design

The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintelligent processes can make seemingly-designed systems, ones of the complexity of those found in the cell. ID specifically denies this, predicting that in the absence of intelligent input no such systems would develop. So Darwinism and ID make clear, opposite predictions of what we should find when we examine genetic results from a stupendous number of organisms that are under relentless pressure from natural selection. The recent genetic results are a stringent test. The results: 1) Darwinism’s prediction is falsified; 2) Design’s prediction is confirmed. ↗

— Michael J. Behe

#chance #darwinism #evolution #id #intelligent-design

Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them. ↗

— Paul Lockhart

#intelligence #problems #art

Mobs have passions, not brains. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#mobs #passion #intelligence

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#absolute #absolute power #allows #belief #clear

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

#ignorance #intelligence #libraries #education