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Likely Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in science, is to…
- Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the…
- The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are not trained to…
- A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.
- There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or…
- If you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world,…
- A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.
- A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure…
- Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world…
- Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
- The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness…
- A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity…
- Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take…
- I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence is…
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