Academic Quote by Bertrand Russell

Philosophy is really homesickness.

— George MacDonald

To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.

— Bertrand Russell

“With the possible exception of the higher reaches of pure mathematics or theoretical physics, one can scarcely imagine anything more inhuman than philosophy. Its…

— Mark Rowlands

I rather stumbled into philosophy. When I began my undergraduate career at Cambridge, I studied mathematics.

— Philip Kitcher

I call myself an experimental philosopher which is as ambiguous a term as comprehensive anticipatory design scientist.

— Jonathon Keats

Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic training nor…

— Anne Fortier

I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between.

— George Polya

It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact,…

— Anonymous

Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out.

— Simon Critchley

To create a good philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.

— Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly!

— Gregory Chaitin