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Sir Francis Bacon once said: "Knowledge is power." This is true, but only if you know how to acquire it. Also there can be no knowledge without information. Opponent of this statement will tell you that the opposite is often more true, that power is knowledge, in the sense that power decides which knowledge is produced in a given social setting and gets to count as knowledge in discourse and decision making. However, intelligence can be seen as the product of evaluated information or knowledge, valued for its currency and relevance rather than its detail or accuracy.

This would mean a person who knows a little about a lot should be considered more intelligent than an old fashioned professor specialized in one single subject. This might sound controversial but after further examination this is probably the case. A person with a broad field of knowledge will have his eyes open for the world around him rather than be stuck in a lab or office and doing research all the time. This different view on the world enables our intelligent person to quickly adapt his knowledge to any given situation. The single minded professor on the other hand needs years of research to adapt to changing situations.