Jack McDevitt Quotes

I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.

Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.

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

And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me.

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.

I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any system could really reflect the complexity and uniqueness of one person's mind, or meaningfully describe the nature of his or her potential.

The forms of my awareness are richer than yours.

When you think of intelligence, don't think of a college professor; think of human beings as opposed to chimpanzees. If you don't have human intelligence, you're not even in the game.

Intelligence is not to be confused with intelligence.

Beauty is subjective, so people's opinions don't really matter.

Articulateness is not the only way that intelligence manifests itself.

Some people are amazed at my brain, but really it's nothing.

The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.

Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.

Mitt der Dummheit k a« mpfen G o« tter selbst vergebens. Even the gods themselves struggle in vain against stupidity.

Donald Trump is not an unintelligent man.

That's pretty weird—and when I say something's weird, you know it's serious.

Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.

I may not be able to define pornography but I know it when I see it.

Rick Steiner is so stupid, it takes him an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource.