Human Intelligence Quotes

• The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

  Stephen Hawking

  Race, Development, Ends

  "Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind" by Rory Cellan-Jones, www.bbc.com. December 2, 2014.

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• Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

  Vernor Vinge

  Mean, Years, Eras

  "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era". Vernor Vinge's remarks presented at the VISION-21 Symposium sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center and the Ohio Aerospace Institute, edoras.sdsu.edu. March 30-31, 1993.

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• There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over.

  Stephen Hawking

  Real, Computer, Danger

  Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 18, 2001.

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• There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

  Ronald Reagan

  Business, Patriotic, Intelligence Services

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• It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.

  Noam Chomsky

  May, Limits, Humans

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• Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

  Ken Robinson

  Inspirational, Education, Believe

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• Intelligence.  Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

  Thelma Ritter

  Race, Window, Trouble

  "Fictional character: Stella". "Rear Window", 1954.

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• It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

  Henry Adams

  Intelligence, Impossible, Humans

  Henry Adams, Jacob Clavner Levenson (1989). “1903-1916”

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• Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.

  Huston Smith

  Reflection, Knowing, Mind

  Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.43, Univ of California Press

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• The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction.

  Terry Winograd

  Mind, Technique, Social

  "Thinking Machines: Can there be? Are we?". Book by Terry Winograd, 1990.

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• Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

  Edward Thorndike

  Animal, Matter, Facts

  Edward Lee Thorndike (1898). “Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals”

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• Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

  Bryant H. McGill

  May, Being The Best, Tricks

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• There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

  Stephen Hawking

  Real, Brain, Connections

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• Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Money, Fear, Animal Intelligence

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.29, University of Toronto Press

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• The object of pure Physic[s] is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure Mathematic[s] that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Law, World, Physics

  "Memorabilia Mathematica". Book by Robert Edouard Moritz, 1914.

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• If you have peace of mind, when you meet with problems and difficulties they won’t disturb your inner peace. You’ll be able to employ your human intelligence more effectively. But, if your mental state is disturbed, full of emotion, it is very difficult to cope with problems, because the mind that is full of emotion is biased, unable to see reality. So whatever you do will be unrealistic and naturally fail.

  Dalai Lama

  Reality, Inner Peace, Mind

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• The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.

  Penn Jillette

  Creativity, And Love, Idealism

  Penn Jillette (2012). “God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• A calm mind helps our human intelligence to assess the situation realistically.

  Dalai Lama

  Calm Mind, Helping, Situation

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• Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.

  Michael Crichton

  Creative, Confusing, Trouble

  Michael Crichton (2012). “The Andromeda Strain”, p.194, Vintage

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• What AI could do is essentially be a power tool that magnifies human intelligence and gives us the ability to move our civilization forward. It might be curing disease, it might be eliminating poverty. Certainly it should include preventing environmental catastrophe. If AI could be instrumental to all those things, then I would feel it was worthwhile.

  Stuart J. Russell

  Moving, Civilization, Giving

  "Intelligent robots don't need to be conscious to turn against us". Interview with Guia Marie Del Prado, www.businessinsider.com. August 5, 2015.

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• We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.

  Ken Robinson

  Mean, Mind, World

  "TED and Reddit asked Sir Ken Robinson anything — and he answered". blog.ted.com. August 12, 2009.

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• Everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence is magnified by the tools that AI may provide, but the eradication of war, disease, and poverty would be high on anyone's list. Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last.

  Stephen Hawking

  War, Creating, Events

  "Stephen Hawking: 'Transcendence looks at the implications of artificial intelligence - but are we taking AI seriously enough?'". www.independent.co.uk. May 1, 2014.

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• When we are angry we are blind to reality. Anger may bring us a temporary burst of energy, but that energy is blind and it blocks the part of our brain that distinguishes right from wrong. To deal with our problems, we need to be practical and realistic. If we are to be realistic, we need to use our human intelligence properly, which means we need a calm mind.

  Dalai Lama

  Block, Mean, Reality

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• Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is what I have formulated before: Everything is a symbol of a symbol, and a symbol of what? Of mind.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Mind, Consciousness, Individual

  Entry for December 30, 1850, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• The intelligence displayed by many dumb animals approaches so closely to human intelligence that it is a mystery. The animals see and hear and love and fear and suffer. They use their organs far more faithfully than many human beings use theirs. They manifest sympathy and tenderness toward their companions in suffering. Many animals show an affection for those who have charge of them, far superior to the affection shown by some of the human race. They form attachments for man which are not broken without great suffering to them.

  Ellen G. White

  Animal, Men, Race

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Miscellaneous Periodical Articles - Book III of III”, p.305, Lulu Press, Inc

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