"Intelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom up."

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Source : "Dare To Be 100: Worse Or Better World? The Flynn Effect" by Walter M. Bortz II, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2016.

Matt Ridley

#Order Quotes #Innovation Quotes #Collaboration Quotes

“I do believe in God, but I think it's very healthy for a believer to spend time in the pragmatism of agnosticism, and I think God appreciates agnostics trying to make a science of it and going, "I will not believe any further than that." I enjoy that kind of engineering mind. In no way did it ever feel blasphemous to me as a man of faith.”
“The indispensability argument seeks to assimilate the epistemology of metaphysical statements to the epistemology of statements that are obviously empirical. I think it fails to achieve this goal. The argument does not refute the Carnapian thesis that scientific theories and metaphysical claims differ epistemologically - observations can provide evidence for the former, but not for the latter.”
“I've been approached by many different people, but I don't really want to be known as a collaboration dude.”
“Ability without honor is useless.”
“If someone puts his trust in God in a matter, let him not argue with his brother about it.”
“If you stand in the rain, you get wet, whether you understand water or not.”
“And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end”
“I was a bad student. I liked archaeology actually, I was interested in maybe becoming an archaeologist but I was such a bad student and had such bad grades that I wasn't going to get into any really good college so I fell back on acting.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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