Smart people don’t make a great culture, a Great Culture makes us smart,

‘It’s culture which has made us intelligent, not intelligence which has made culture.’

Friedrich Hayek

and a bit about him

In methodology Hayek attacked “scientism”—the imitation in social science of the methods of the physical sciences. His argument was that because social science, including economics, studies people and not objects, it can do so only by paying attention to human purposes.