Quotes by Russell, Bertrand

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires. >>

What men want is not knowledge, but certainty. >>

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, neve >>

Quotations about Science and Scientists

Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to it >>

Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outsid >>

Man lives for science as well as bread. >>

In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.

Russell, Bertrand