"Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the……" — Bertrand Russell
"Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale"
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Bertrand Russell
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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell has 824 quotes on this site.
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That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to…
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan…
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done…
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second…
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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think…
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without…
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in…
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious…
— Michael Badnarik
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By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of…
— Yukio Mishima
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To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss…
— George Santayana
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There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity. ...…
— Seth Shostak
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It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact…
— H. L. Mencken
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The brain is biology's greatest challenge. Perhaps in a sense it is the greatest challenge for science as a whole,…
— Steven Rose
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The supposed astronomical proofs of the theory [of relativity], as cited and claimed by Einstein, do not exist. He is…
— Charles Lane Poor
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[About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his…
— Augustus De Morgan
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For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in…
— Abu Rayhan al-Biruni
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[Pitchblende] consists of a peculiar, distinct, metallic substance. Therefore its former denominations, pitch-blende, pitch-iron-ore, &c. are no longer applicable, and…
— Martin Heinrich Klaproth
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God created the universe out of nothing in an act which also brought time into existence. Recent discoveries, such as…
— Henry Margenau
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The issue here is not gun control. And it's not even astronomical cost overruns, although those are serious. What's really…
— Sheila Fraser
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