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Scientific Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to being little devils;…
- 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…
- 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…
- The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.
- 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…
- What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable,…
- For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked the very same…
- What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.
- Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control…
- Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily…
- Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass…
- Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us from teaching the…
- If politics is to become scientific, and if the event is not to be constantly surprising, it is imperative that our political thinking should penetrate…
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