« All Science Quotes · Bertrand Russell's Page
Science Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.
- What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.
- Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
- Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as will…
- The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt several times. This…
- 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…
- Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being concerned with particular…
- 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…
- Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about. Therefore every advance…
- Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.
- In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men…
- 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…
- All the conditions of happiness are realized in the life of the man of science.
- 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…
- Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.
- Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power of manipulating nature.…
- Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive…
- I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.
- Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.
- There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or…
- A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became…
- 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…
- All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.
- Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at…
- Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because fear is at…
More Ways to Read Science Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Best Science Quotes by Bertrand Russell (Science Quotes by Bertrand Russell)
- Best Science Sayings by Bertrand Russell (Science Quotes by Bertrand Russell)
More Science Quotes
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov