"As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two……" — Martin Gardner
"As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun."
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28 Quotes by Martin Gardner
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If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would…
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Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify…
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If present trends continue, our country may soon find itself far behind many other nations in both science and technology…
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Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid…
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All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.
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Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. That is that entire universe is made of matter,…
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Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The…
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The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what…
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If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is…
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There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and…
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The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to…
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It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on…
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Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He…
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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I believe in you and me. I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have…
— Frank Sinatra
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Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.'…
— Mary Jo Bang
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It seems that every practitioner of physics has had to wonder at some point why mathematics and physics have come…
— Unknown Author
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Condelleza Rice and Colin Powell are both dangerous people. What they did in Haiti [2004 U.S.-backed coup that ousted democratically…
— Randall Robinson
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The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance.
— Leon M. Lederman
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Daniel Dennett is our best current philosopher. He is the next Bertrand Russell. Unlike traditional philosophers, Dan is a student…
— Marvin Minsky
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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,…
— Norman Geisler
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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…
— Gottlob Frege
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
— Carl Sandburg
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The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind…
— Richard Dawkins
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