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The survival value of human intelligence has never been satisfactorily demonstrated. JEREMY STONE
According to Lewis Bornheim, a crisis is a situation in which a previously tolerable set of circumstances is suddenly, by the addition of another factor, rendered wholly intolerable.
A mathematician once joked that binary numbers were the way people who have only two fingers count.
A friend once said of him: “Jeremy knows everything, and is fascinated by the rest.”
He often argued that human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.
No one ever thought to consider whether the human brain, the most complex structure in the known universe, making fantastic demands on the human body in terms of nourishment and blood, was not analogous.
