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Cannot Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian…
- Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.
- Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.
- What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.
- I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and…
- Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that…
- Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power of manipulating nature.…
- There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be…
- Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless,…
- There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or…
- Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.
- Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
- I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not.
- Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become…
- No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.
- There is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is of the existence of the…
- Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries…
- Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that…
- If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well…
- We may often do as we please - but we cannot please as we please.
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- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
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