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Natural Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can…
- My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to…
- Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its…
- 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…
- ...impregnation will be regarded in an entirely different manner, more in the light of a surgical operation, so that it will be thought not ladylike…
- The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children for a picnic…
- Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.
- The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
- It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.
- It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.
- Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress, both…
- It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws
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