Michael Ragland  wrote or quoted:

> "It's uncertain whether intelligence has any long term survival
value."
> Stephen Hawking 
> 
> Ragland:
> I'm going to explain what that quote of Hawking means to "me". First,
> the full quote by Hawking is, "It's uncertain whether intelligence has
> any long term value. Bacteria do quite well without it."

Compare with:

``It's uncertain whether multicellularity has any long term value. 
  Bacteria do quite well without it.''

It's hard to argue with such statements: nothing is certain in this world.
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