"What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know." — Bertrand Russell
"What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know."
—
Bertrand Russell
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell has 824 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to…
-
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan…
-
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
-
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done…
-
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second…
-
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…
-
Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
-
The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without…
-
Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
-
Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in…
-
Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
-
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
See all 824 quotes by Bertrand Russell »
More Cannot Know Quotes
This quote is filed under Cannot Know Quotes,
one of 164 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know…
— Wendell Berry
-
We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.
— Claude Shannon
-
Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do…
— Marianne Williamson
-
Parents of handicapped children are occasionally embarrassed or hurt by others who awkwardly express sympathy but cannot know or appreciate…
— James E. Faust
-
Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot…
— Henri Poincare
-
We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot…
— Jules Renard
-
Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.
— Seneca the Younger
-
If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are…
— John B. S. Haldane
-
I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be…
— Bertrand Russell
-
It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The…
— John Steinbeck
-
There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ...…
— Roger Bacon
-
The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or…
— E. M. Forster
See all 164 Cannot Know Quotes »