Human Ingenuity Quotes

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.

If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them, animals perish--man writes the Constitution of the United States.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.

Thus by such victory, not by machines but in oppositions to the principle of machines, has the freedom of states been preserved by the cunning of architects

The truth is that behind any AI program that works is a huge amount of, A, human ingenuity and, B, blood, sweat and tears. It's not the kind of thing that suddenly takes off like 'Her' or in 'Ex Machina.'

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly applied under conditions of peace and justice.

Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

The Discovery was the most intricate, complex machine man has ever built. It's a testament to our time.

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

Sure, our three-pound brains might be inadequate to understand the universe. But perhaps they're just good enough to build something that can.

Ive never been a big believer in ghosts or the spirit world, and for me, that was part of the point of the movie, ... What the Ghostbusters represented was the triumph of human courage and human ingenuity. People create their own monsters. Our fears come from within us, not outside.

Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.

I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us.

Give civilized man time to gather all his machines about him, and he will no doubt easily beat the savage; but if you would see a still more unequal contest, set them together naked and unarmed, and you will soon see the advantage of having all our forces constantly at our disposal, of being always prepared for every event

What a paradox if our own cleverness in science should force us to live underground with the moles.

Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design and build a great cathedral? If such achievements represent anything more than the requirements of physical law, it means that science must investigate the additional controlling factors, whatever they may be, in order that the world of nature may be adequately understood.

Machines cannot make machines, unless back of them all are the brains and toil of men.

What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?

If the artificial is not better than the natural, to what end are all the arts of life? To dig, to plow, to build, to wear clothes, are direct infringements of the injunction to follow nature.