Antiintellectual Quotes
More Antiintellectual Quotes
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
— 'Minority Report'. Collected in Notebooks (1956).
We have not found anti-intellectualism a problem at the Polaroid Corporation, except in the very initial state of penetration. It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!
edwin h. land— Speaking at Columbia University, as quoted in The Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, Vol. 37, No. 3 (1992), p. 537
True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights and I am not against supplying such lures if they draw children into even a transient concern with science. But every classroom has one [Oliver] Sacks , one [Eric] Korn, or one [Jonathan] Miller , usually a lonely child with a passionate curiosity about nature, and a zeal that overcomes pressures for conformity. Do not the one in fifty deserve their institutions as well magic places, like cabinet museums, that can spark the rare flames of genius?
stephen jay gould— "Cabinet Museums: Alive, Alive, O!", p. 246
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
h. l. mencken— 412
As a teacher of philosophy, a very dubious profession in this country, I am in a position to observe how precarious a hold the intellect has upon American life; and this is not true merely of the great majority of students but of cultured people, of intellectuals, to whom here in America a philosophical idea is an alien and embarrassing thing. In their actual life Americans are not only a non-intellectual but an anti-intellectual people.
— Chapter Eleven, The Place Of The Furies, p. 238
