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The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man. – Chauncey Wright

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All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control. – Chauncey Wright

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Experience
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use ones intelligence without the guidance of another. – Immanuel Kant

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But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence. – Vernor Vinge

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Intelligence

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

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Were not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this. – John Mica

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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. – Jane Austen

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