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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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The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor. – Leland Stanford

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The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it. – Terry Pratchett

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