There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.
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p. 190.Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues
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Any robot sufficiently intelligent to clean dishes is too intelligent to clean dishes.
David Zindell
By believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Franz Kafka
I am sufficiently intelligent to be able to differentiate between real falsehood, which is aimed at hurting people, and a wise moderation of so-called truth, whose only object is to simplify life for all concerned.
Stig Dagerman
Intelligent design is eminently falsifiable. Specified complexity in general and irreducible complexity in biology are within the theory of intelligent design the key markers of intelligent agency. If it could be shown that biological systems like the bacterial flagellum that are wonderfully complex, elegant, and integrated could have been formed by a gradual Darwinian process (which by definition is non-telic), then intelligent design would be falsified on the general grounds that one doesn't invoke intelligent causes when purely natural causes will do. In that case Occam's razor finishes off intelligent design quite nicely.
William A. Dembski
I think more audiences would like contemporary music if they were presented with it, told about it. It's just a matter of familiarity, I think. Then one begins to look back at old music as stuffy, or even tiresome. It's funny -- I'm beginning to like older music more than I used to, but it's like I'm going into a museum and contemplating a Rembrandt. It just feels like its part of the aristocratic class system of kings and queens and dukes which just doesn't exist anymore.
Elliott Carter
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, marquis de
Veblen, Oswald
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