“We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science - revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence.”
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.
