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- One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war will last 30…
- The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three…
- 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…
- I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include…
- 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…
- Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.
- For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from…
- The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.
- Certain characteristics of the subject are clear. To begin with, we do not in this subject deal with particular things or particular properties: we deal…
- The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, I would say, is what distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children.
- Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical…
- Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that…
- The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to…
- Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.
- While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is…
- In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more…
- I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in…
- Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause…
- I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a…
- As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because…
- I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of cowardice, which in…
- Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that…
- No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying…
- You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step…
- Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other,…
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- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
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