If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship love fatherhood and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
To be surprised to wonder is to begin to understand.
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship love fatherhood and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.