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...Chuck Eastlake, a professor of aerospace engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, agrees, adding that despite increased automation of in-flight procedures and even experiments, the importance of human intellect cannot be discounted. "If I were personally in charge of a mission," he says, "I would feel far more confident of success if there were a person on board to deal with contingencies...
...didn't persuade his colleagues. But he made a lasting impression on Bush. After telling aides that the first phase of the war would be limited to removing the Taliban, the President privately encouraged Wolfowitz--"Wolfie," as Bush calls him--to keep pressing his case. "When he speaks, his intellect is moving so fast that sometimes he's editing as he goes along," says a senior Administration official. "But you always want to listen carefully to what he's saying...
Finally, the fact that genes matter doesn't mean that other things don't matter. Some of the causes of the differences in personality, intellect and pathology are obvious. There are no genes for speaking English or for being a Presbyterian (though there may be sets of genes for verbal skill and religiosity). One's choice of language or religion depends almost entirely on one's culture. Less obvious are some of the other possible causes. These include germs, accidents, chance encounters in life and random events in the development of the brain in utero...
...scientific achievement was the theory of "punctuated equilibria" (co-authored with Niles Eldredge), arguing that species don't evolve gradually, as the conventional wisdom suggested, but rather remain unchanged for long periods, then undergo rapid bursts of change. His papers, essays, books and lectures brought Gould's wide-ranging intellect to the attention of the public--while burying his intellectual opponents under the weight of millions of words. Along the way, the politically left-wing scientist, in frequent and passionate writing on baseball, proved to admirers of George Will that conservatives have no monopoly on the love of our national...
...Simply his intellectual pedigree might be an issue,” Orsi said of Hehir, who has distinguished himself as a theologian. “He’s such a prodigious intellect...