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Numbers Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created…
- The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an…
- With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine.…
- Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires
- Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths on offer, every…
- The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average…
- If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others,…
- The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which…
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- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing… — Neil Armstrong
- All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are… — Isaac Asimov
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not… — Norman Ralph Augustine
- It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on… — Paul Auster
- There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge,… — Charles Babbage