Arthur Jensen quotes

“The orthodox environmental theories [of heredity] have been accepted not because they have stood up under proper scientific investigations, but because they harmonize so well with our democratic belief in human equality.”
-- Arthur Jensen

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“The problem of individual differences and group differences would not be made to disappear by abolishing tests. One cannot treat a fever by throwing away the thermometer.”
-- Arthur Jensen

Source : Arthur Robert Jensen (1980). “Bias in Mental Testing”

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“Compensatory education has been tried and it apparently has failed”
-- Arthur Jensen

Source : Arthur Robert Jensen, Frank Miele (2002). “Intelligence, race, and genetics: conversations with Arthur R. Jensen”, Basic Books

“There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.”
-- Arthur Jensen

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“YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature and YOU! WILL! ATONE!”
-- Arthur Jensen

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“Good intentions are impotent unless based on reality.”
-- Arthur Jensen

Source : Arthur Jensen (2012). “Educability and Group Differences”, p.17, Routledge

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“Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.”

Source : Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.556, Library of America

“So it is fair to ask, why not address the threat of climate change when it is still possible? Asad Rehman, of the international environmental group Friends of the Earth, who was in New York for the climate march, told me, “If we can find the trillions [of dollars] we’re finding for conflict whether there’s been the invasion in Iraq or Afghanistan or now the conflict in Syria, then we can find the kind of money that’s required for the transformation that will deliver clean, renewable energy.””

“My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.”

“We will pay for this [climate change] one way or another. We will pay to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions today and we'll have to take an enormous hit of some kind. Or we will pay the price later in military terms. And that will involve human lives. There will be a human toll. There is no way out of this that does not have real costs attached to it.”

“The orthodox environmental theories [of heredity] have been accepted not because they have stood up under proper scientific investigations, but because they harmonize so well with our democratic belief in human equality.”

“Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.”

“Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.”

“Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.”

“When we end up in a situation where we have been rejected, there is an acceptance in Christ of a new place He is going to take us. It is like nothing we have ever experienced. You are accepted in Christ, never rejected by Him.”

“You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

Source : Instagram post by Bindi Irwin @bindisueirwin, www.instagram.com. June 2, 2015.