Axel Alonso has described Miles as an intelligent nerd with an aptitude for science similar to his predecessor, Peter Parker.
Fascinated by and attracted to the highly intelligent Sabina, who shows a considerable aptitude for medicine and psychology, Jung corresponded about this case with Freud, who subsequently passed on to him an infinitely more deeply disturbed patient, Otto Gross Vincent Cassell).
I am a normal man, wouldn't you say, intelligent and well educated, yes, with an aptitude for a certain kind of high-level work, but fundamentally normal, in temperament and disposition.
He next identifies the combination of inherent aptitude and systematic study behind "being intelligent and wise and protecting one's own person" with what the recluse-hermits of antiquity called "the dao of nurturing life (yang sheng zhi dao 養生之道).
Most accounts of intelligence are "abilities-centric". They aim to explain intelligent behavior in terms of IQ or other measures of intellectual aptitude.
Just have an aptitude for unconventional thinking.
Artificial intelligence is embedded in many features of modern life for the simple reason that intelligent machines can already outperform humans, including some aptitudes where there was once thought to be a human advantage, such as playing chess, or recalling trivia in a game of Jeopardy.
Even intelligent parents, who know that the ability to write (and think) matters more in life than an aptitude for aptitude tests, are signing their children up, at considerable expense, for what?
My reluctant conclusion: while Powers and Buckley are manifestly intelligent men whose work in other fields compels the greatest respect, neither here demonstrates much natural aptitude for writing fiction.
Very intelligent and gifted with the abilities to truly empathize with those who suffer, as well as an aptitude for tireless work, they use their talents to rise in their professions and meet their goals.
Many of the feats of common ravens were formerly argued to be stereotyped innate behaviour, but it now has been established that their aptitudes for solving problems individually and learning from each other reflect a flexible capacity for intelligent insight unusual among non-human animals.
