“I had my father's mind, but he had his mother's mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.” MindKindMotherFatherSexAbilityIntellectualGrandmotherLinked Book:Margaret Mead, some personal views Source: Margaret Mead, some personal views
“[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that he had imbibed at his mother's knee.” PeopleMatterMotherMoralAtheismIntellectualPositive AtheismKneesSkeptical Author:Bertrand Russell
“A taxonomy of abilities, like a taxonomy anywhere else in science, is apt to strike a certain type of impatient student as a gratuitous orgy of pedantry. Doubtless, compulsions to intellectual tidiness express themselves prematurely at times, and excessively at others, but a good descriptive taxonomy, as Darwin found in developing his theory, and as Newton found in the work of Kepler, is the mother of laws and theories.” LawMotherCertainFoundAbilityStudentsTheoryTypeIntellectualStrikesDevelopingCompulsionImpatientNewtonPedantryKeplerTaxonomy Author:Raymond Cattell