Intelligence Loss Quotes

I get dumber as the day goes along. Every second of the day that goes along, I get stupider.

ISIS is the most sophisticated terror threat we have ever faced. We are now at a time when we need more tools, not less tools. And that took we lost, the metadata program, was a valuable tool that we no longer have at our disposal.

Finally I'm becoming stupider no more.

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.

I used to be smart.

There is a big problem. It's called encryption. And the people in San Bernardino were communicating with people who the FBI had been watching. But because their phone was encrypted, because the intelligence officials could not see who they were talking to, it was lost.

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Peace begins in the womb. The newborn reflects this truth. Order is transferred from cell to tissue, to organs, to organisms, to families, communities, and nations. Unfortunately, when development is violated in the womb by man-made chemicals, the newborn is compromised. For animals in the wild, their survival is threatened. They can disappear without our ever knowing why. For humans, such exposure can lead to reduced intelligence, discontent, failure, and the inability to socially integrate. Man-made chemicals deprive societies of responsible leaders and thinkers. The social and economic impacts are incalculable. Widespread loss of security in the womb can lead to loss of stability at the national and international level.

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.