Answers Quote by Sidney Hook

“In his school, Bertrand Russell thought it was better if they had the sex, so they could give their undivided attention to mathematics, which…

— Paul Goodman

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

— Zora Neale Hurston

“Historically, philosophy does not have an impressive track record of answering questions about natural world in a decisive manner.”

— Christof Koch

All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense). It was Russell who performed the service of showing that the apparent…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“You don’t know what year it is?” “Kind of a dull question to ask someone if I did, isn’t it?”

— Cyma Rizwaan Khan

Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard and earnestly…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

“A philosopher/mathematician named Bertrand Russell who lived and died in the same century as Gass once wrote: “Language serves not only to express thought…

— Dan Simmons

The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance.

— Leon M. Lederman

“Questions are vehicles to the future. Answers are milestones along the way.”

— Ted Agon

“You can generally count on a philosopher to ask a question about the question.”

— Kunal K. Das

“For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact 42-…

— Douglas Adams

“My dear, you are a mathematician. You're even more, you're a philosopher of mathematics. So do this for me: Tell me the final number.”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin