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...human animal to the dinosaur: insufficiently intelligent to adapt to his changing environment. Caltech Biophysicist Robert Sinsheimer calls men "victims of emotional anachronisms, of internal drives essential to survival in a primitive past, but undesirable in a civilized state." Thus, by his own efforts, man must sharpen his intellect and curb his aboriginal urges, especially his aggressiveness...
...tools of man's intelligence. Long before the development of molecular biology, Marcel Proust pondered the mystery of memory in Remembrance of Things Past. About a man's own past, he wrote that "it is a labor in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect must prove futile. The past is hidden somewhere beyond the reach of the intellect." In Swann's Way, it was a tea-soaked petite madeleine that touched off the hero's long-forgotten childhood memories. In the scientific world, the stimulus is sometimes a surgeon's probe. Montreal Surgeon Wilder...
...aspects of the play. It is ironic that while audiences will root for Stockmann on this contemporary issue, they would probably spurn him as an arrogant elitist if he were running for political office. As unyieldingly committed as was Ibsen himself to the prior claims of the individual conscience, intellect, character and will. Stockmann has no use for "the solid majority." He is for the "isolated, intellectually superior personalities" in society...
Levi-Strauss's theory is that, appearances notwithstanding, the war-painted Indian and the nuclear physicist are as similar as fraternal twins: the human intellect has been operating in the same fundamental pattern since the dawn of society...
...more politically-minded than I am politically active." he said, "but I'm willing to contribute anything whether of my intellect or my finances, to the black mass...