It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
As has been the case throughout the history of terrorism, government anxiety centres on what to do about those against whom there may be intelligence but no usable evidence.
If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
My grandmother was a nanny for an Orthodox Jewish family, and she would come home and tell us about that.
I am concerned that the vague guidelines and policies used by the NSA for intelligence collection and sharing, in conjunction with elusive direction from the Administration, have led to intelligence being collected on sitting members of Congress for political purposes.