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The tremendous Trans-Appalachian empire between the mountains and the Mississippi was won almost unnoticed by the people on the coast.
“It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind. Nothing is more flatly contradicted by experience than the belief that a man distinguished in one or even more departments of science, is more likely to think sensibly about ordinary affairs than anyone else. Wilfred Trotter”
― The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
― The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
“One’s initial surprise at finding that intelligent people tend to be socialists diminishes when one realises that, of course, intelligent people will tend to overvalue intelligence, and to suppose that we must owe all the advantages and opportunities that our civilisation offers to deliberate design rather than to following traditional rules, and likewise to suppose that we can, by exercising our reason, eliminate any remaining undesired features by still more intelligent reflection, and still more appropriate design and ‘rational coordinationâ€� of our undertakings. This leads one to be favourably disposed to the central economic planning and control that lie at the heart of socialism.”
― The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
― The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
“There is no antidote against the Opium of time”
― The Prose of Sir Thomas Browne
― The Prose of Sir Thomas Browne
“We mortals are the immortals' work battalion.”
― Report to Greco
― Report to Greco
“Even worse, those with accomplishments worthy of the designation
"genius" do not always make the IQ cut. When Terman first used the IQ test to select a sample of child geniuses, he unknowingly excluded a special child whose IQ did not make the grade. Yet a few decades later that overlooked talent received the Nobel Prize in physics: William Shockley, the cocreator of the transistor. Ironically, not one of the more than 1,500 children who qualified according to his IQ criterion received so high an honor as adults. Clearly, a Nobel laureate has much greater claim to the term genius than those whose achievements did not win them such applause.”
― Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity
"genius" do not always make the IQ cut. When Terman first used the IQ test to select a sample of child geniuses, he unknowingly excluded a special child whose IQ did not make the grade. Yet a few decades later that overlooked talent received the Nobel Prize in physics: William Shockley, the cocreator of the transistor. Ironically, not one of the more than 1,500 children who qualified according to his IQ criterion received so high an honor as adults. Clearly, a Nobel laureate has much greater claim to the term genius than those whose achievements did not win them such applause.”
― Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity
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