The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial those arguments collapsed scientifically and intellectually.

Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair but simply an integral part of the stuff of life necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

While a case can be made for intelligent design I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

Deep down no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time death is suddenly there unintelligibly.

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

We are constantly protecting the male ego and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage but just plain physical courage.

None speak of the bravery the might or the intellect of Jesus but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect political cunning and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

If we are to survive we must have ideas vision and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

Two qualities are indispensable: first an intellect that even in the darkest hour retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth and second the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

I noticed that this defense attorney is a very very intelligent man and he's very cool and he's very knowledgeable and I think that personally I'd like to have an attorney like him.

Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.

To act coolly intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.