“Bertrand Russell: The expression “free thought” is often used as if it meant merely opposition to the prevailing orthodoxy. But this… — Jonathan M.S. Pearce Copy Share Image
“The Sexual plight of these children [those adolescents experimenting sexually] is officially not mentioned. The revolutionary attack on hypocrisy by Ibsen, Freud,… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“McGrath briefly notes Bertrand Russell's Why I am not a Christian, and J. J. C. Smart gets a single mention, as does… — Keith Parsons Copy Share Image
The way to stop feeling guilty is to read stuff - I'm not saying my book, but works by Bertrand Russell or… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
To put it simply, we first explain what we are talking about, and then explain why what we are saying is true… — IU?. I. Manin Copy Share Image
“The degree of one’s emotion varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts—the less you know, the hotter you get. —BERTRAND RUSSELL” — Joel Tillinghast Copy Share Image
“A saving grace of the human condition (if I may phrase it like that) is a sense of humor. Many writers and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“No respecter of evidence has ever found the least clue as to what life is all about, and what people should do… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“A philosopher/mathematician named Bertrand Russell who lived and died in the same century as Gass once wrote: “Language serves not only to… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don’t have any choice to make. Bertrand Russell” — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
“The inclusion of just one contradiction (like 0 = 1) in an axiomatic system allows any statement about the objects in the… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
None of this means, however, that a business or stock is an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a contrarian approach… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Eliot's own reflections on the primitive mind as a model for nondualistic thinking and on the nature and consequences of different modes… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“In his school, Bertrand Russell thought it was better if they had the sex, so they could give their undivided attention to… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“According to Bertrand Russell, the virtuous stoic was one whose will was in agreement with the natural order. He described the basic… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“The famous atheistic philosopher Bertrand Russell once said, “What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.” — Dan DeWitt Copy Share Image
“A proof represents a logical process which has come to a definitive conclusion in a finite number of stages. However, a logical… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
“Bertrand Russell declared that, in case he met God, he would say to Him, "Sir, you did not give us enough information."… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being… — Raymond Cattell Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly! — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
“As Bertrand Russell is often reported to have said, “The mark of a civilized man is the capacity to read a column… — Kevin Simler Copy Share Image
“Turing attended Wittgenstein's lectures on the philosophy of mathematics in Cambridge in 1939 and disagreed strongly with a line of argument that… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image