Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Philosophy, as I shall understand the word, is something intermediate between theology and science.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Science seems to be at war with itself… Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism tobe false.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
So far I have been speaking of theoretical science, which is an attempt to understand the world. Practical science, which is an… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If politics is to become scientific, and if the event is not to be constantly surprising, it is imperative that our political… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All definite knowledge - so I should contend - belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The philosophies that have been inspired by scientific technique are power philosophies, and tend to regard everything non-human as mere raw material.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Understanding human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty— a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I do not like mystical language, and yet I hardly know how to express what I mean without employing phrases that sound… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
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