#intelligent

Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is most needed. If Intelligent Design is really a science, then the burden is on its scientists to discover the mechanisms used by the Intelligent Designer. (80) ↗

— Michael Shermer

#intelligent-design #science #design

With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket. Matilda froze in horror. The father kept going. There seemed little doubt that the man felt some kind of jealousy. How dare she, he seemed to be saying with each rip of a page, how dare she enjoy reading books when he couldn't? How dare she? ↗

— Roald Dahl

#intelligent #matilda #roald-dahl #shocking #inspirational

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#i #intelligentsia #london #look #outsider

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played. ↗

— June Allyson

#dramatic #dramatic role #ever #first #i

I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around. ↗

— Christian Bale

#good #good script #i #intelligent #only

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual. ↗

— Kenneth Baker

#between #big #distinction #english #french

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#be grateful #grateful #i #intelligent #public

When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of matter, it is quite possibly a cause possessing a mind. ↗

— Johannes Kepler

#cause #id #intelligent-design #kepler #naturalism

One is greater than two amongst three men where only one of them is intelligent! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#intelligence

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present. ↗

— Franz Boas

#emotionally #energetic #imaginative #intelligent #mankind