It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

About G. H. Hardy

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Godfrey Harold Hardy (7 February 1877 – 1 December 1947) was an English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. In biology, he is known for the Hardy–Weinberg principle, a basic principle of population genetics.

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There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

—Bertrand Russell

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth—more than ruin—more even than death.… Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

—Bertrand Russell

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

—Arthur C. Clarke

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.

—Albert Einstein

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