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The Faculty

«In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.»
«A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.»
«God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.»
«Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.»
«Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.»
«In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man»
«Genius ... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.»
«I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.»
«If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.»
«Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way»