"The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy……" — Leon M. Lederman
"The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance."
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Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He…
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As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.
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Daniel Dennett is our best current philosopher. He is the next Bertrand Russell. Unlike traditional philosophers, Dan is a student…
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Even Bertrand Russell, who fancied he saw flaws in Christ's character, confessed nonetheless that 'What the world needs is love,…
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When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the…
— G. H. Hardy
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A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work…
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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