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Letter "B" » Bertrand Russell Quotes
«All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
approximation, dominated, dominated by, exact, exacted, exacting, exacts, idea, science
«When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain than others»
«The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
absurd, evidence, evidences, fact, has-been, held, in evidence, opinion, utterly, whatever, widely
«The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
cocksure, doubt, full, intelligent, make full, stupid, trouble
«There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Knowledge,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
gained, pleasure, useless
«I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
gardener, gardeners, odd, savant, talk to
«The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
delight, exaltation, excellence, surely, The sense, touchstone, touchstones
«God is a reality of spirit... He cannot... be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
conceived, even as, objects, spirit world
«One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
insofar, keep out, opinion, prison, public, public opinion, respect, starvation, submission, submissions, tyrannies, tyranny, unnecessary, voluntary
«Most people would rather die than think: many do.»
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