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Autism and schizophrenia are said to be neurodevelopmental disorders, in which the brain fails to grow normally.

As the saying goes, perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

From this data, it appears that genes influence IQ as strongly as they influence physical traits.

Perception is the association of an idea with a stimulus, while thought is the association of an idea with another idea.

Since synapses can vote at any time, it’s always election day in the brain.

“To move things is all that mankind can do . . . for such the sole executant is muscle, whether in whispering a syllable or felling a forest.”

Adding more programmers to a late software project makes it later.

This confirmation, however, does not contradict what we learned from Anatole France. Brain size is still almost useless for predicting the IQ of an individual person.

On average, people with bigger brains have higher IQs. Modern studies with improved methods have confirmed Galton.

Shocked and humbled by these thoughts, he confessed that he was terrified by “the eternal silence of these infinite spaces.”