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If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to…
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Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results…
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If present trends continue, our country may soon find itself far behind many other nations in both science and technology nations where,…
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Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders,…
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All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.
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Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. That is that entire universe is made of matter, obviously. And…
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Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The cardinal is…
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The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.
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If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should…
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There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully,…
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The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a…
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It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind…
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Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard…
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I believe in you and me. I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect…
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Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's…
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It seems that every practitioner of physics has had to wonder at some point why mathematics and physics have come to be…
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The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance.
— Leon M. Lederman
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As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.
— Martin Gardner
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Daniel Dennett is our best current philosopher. He is the next Bertrand Russell. Unlike traditional philosophers, Dan is a student of neuroscience,…
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Even Bertrand Russell, who fancied he saw flaws in Christ's character, confessed nonetheless that 'What the world needs is love, Christian love,…
— Norman Geisler
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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
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A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished.…
— Gottlob Frege
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
— Carl Sandburg
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The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible…
— Richard Dawkins
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