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Context: We hardly know the limit of intelligence of individuals who can fruitfully contribute to science in one way or another if they are given the proper training – including graduate training – as assistants, as supervised or semi-independent researchers, as team members. Individuals with any of a very broad spectrum of intellectual attributes can contribute to science.
from Meta-Variations: studies in the foundations of musical thought Red Hook, N.Y. : Open Space, 1995.
Letter to W. W. Norton (publisher), 27 January, 1931
1930s
Part 2 “Four Subjective Arguments”, Chapter 5 “The Argument from Interventions (and Miracles, Prayers, and Witnesses)” (pp. 88-89)
Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up (2008)
Leonard Read Journals, September 6, 1959 https://history.fee.org/leonard-read-journal/1959/leonard-e-read-journal-september-1959
“Tesla has contributed more to electrical science than any man up to his time.”
Statement of 1896, as quoted in Prodigal Genius : The Life of Nikola Tesla (2007) by James J. O'Neill
Life Without Principle (1863)
Context: I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society. Most with whom you endeavor to talk soon come to a stand against some institution in which they appear to hold stock, — that is, some particular, not universal, way of viewing things.
The Eye of Spirit : An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad (1997)
Context: An acknowledgment of the full spectrum of consciousness would profoundly alter the course of every one of the modern disciplines it touches — and that, of course, is an essential aspect of integral studies... A full-spectrum approach to human consciousness and behavior means that men and women have available to them a spectrum of knowing — a spectrum that includes, at the very least, the eye of flesh, the eye of mind, and the eye of spirit.
How To Defend Society Against Science (1975)
“Science, according to science, ought to be the most important attribute of human beings.”
How to Understand Politics: What the Humanities Can Say to Science (2007)
