Science Quotes by Bertrand Russell

Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.

— Bertrand Russell

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

— Bertrand Russell

Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.

— Bertrand Russell

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

— Bertrand Russell

All the conditions of happiness are realized in the life of the man of science.

— Bertrand Russell

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.

— Bertrand Russell

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

— Bertrand Russell

What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

— Bertrand Russell

Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head.

— Bertrand Russell

Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know…

— Bertrand Russell

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot…

— Bertrand Russell

Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers…

— Bertrand Russell

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception…

— Bertrand Russell

Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.

— Bertrand Russell

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be…

— Bertrand Russell

One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought…

— Bertrand Russell

But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize,…

— Bertrand Russell

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are…

— Bertrand Russell

I hold all knowledge that is concerned with things that actually exist - all that is commonly called Science - to be…

— Bertrand Russell

Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the…

— Bertrand Russell

A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about…

— Bertrand Russell

The triumph of science has been mainly due to its practical utility, and there has been an attempt to divorce this aspect…

— Bertrand Russell

“Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot…

— Bertrand Russell

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children…

— Bertrand Russell

Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being…

— Bertrand Russell

Very few men can be genuinely happy in a life involving continual self-assertion against the skepticism of the mass of mankind, unless…

— Bertrand Russell

Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments…

— Bertrand Russell

While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy…

— Bertrand Russell

In astronomy, the law of gravitation is plainly better worth knowing than the position of a particular planet on a particular night,…

— Bertrand Russell

In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself…

— Bertrand Russell

The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in…

— Bertrand Russell

Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power…

— Bertrand Russell

“Philosophy, as I shall understand the word, is something intermediate between theology and science. Like theology, it consists of speculations on matters…

— Bertrand Russell

“Religion is based primarily upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly as the wish to feel that…

— Bertrand Russell

“I have been accused of a habit of changing my opinions. I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed…

— Bertrand Russell

“The result of the scientific work we have been considering was that the outlook of educated men was completely transformed. At the…

— Bertrand Russell

We need a science to save us from science.

— Bertrand Russell

What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.

— Bertrand Russell

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

— Bertrand Russell

Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

— Bertrand Russell