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Bertrand Russell
(18 May 1872 - 2 Feb 1970)
Welsh mathematician, logician and philosopher known for his work in mathematical
logic, but was also active in social and political campaigns, advocating pacifi
sm and nuclear disarmament.
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Science Quotes by Bertrand Russell (86 quotes)
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Bertrand Russell quote A process which led from the amoeba to man
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A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based u
pon it.
Bertrand Russell
The Monist (Apr 1914), 24:2, 173.
Science quotes on: | Error (161) | Fact (361) | Judgment (41)
A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be ob
viously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not
known.
Bertrand Russell
From 'Current Tendencies', delivered as the first of a series of Lowell Lectures
in Boston (Mar 1914). Collected in Our Knowledge of the External World (1914),
12.

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n (270) | Opinion (91) | Philosopher (75) | Process (106) | Progress (22
3) | Unknown (52)
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering
into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which r
egards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
Bertrand Russell
Essay, 'Mysticism and Logic' in Hibbert Journal (Jul 1914). Collected in Mystici
sm and Logic: And Other Essays (1919), 21.
Science quotes on: | External (19) | Image (20) | Stream (13) | Time (20
1) | Truth (495) | Tyrant (2) | World (294)
All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certa
inty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.
Bertrand Russell
From 'Philosophy For Laymen', collected in Unpopular Essays (1950, 1996), 39.
Science quotes on: | Arithmetic (42) | Arranged (2) | Certainty (69) | D
egree (21) | Fact (361) | Hierarchy (7) | Knowledge (749) | Perception (
27) | Top (10)
All the conditions of happiness are realized in the life of the man of science.
Bertrand Russell
The Conquest of Happiness (1930), 146.
Science quotes on: | Condition (78) | Happiness (61) | Life (524) | Men
Of Science (94) | Realization (25)
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of
approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything
, you are safe in infering that he is an inexact man. Every careful measurement
in science is always given with the probable error ... every observer admits tha
t he is likely wrong, and knows about how much wrong he is likely to be.
Bertrand Russell
In The Scientific Outlook (1931, 2009), 42.
Science quotes on: | Error (161) | Measurement (122) | Truth (495)
An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age o
f twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude tha
t it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an in
definite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as w
ell founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous his
tory of this planet.
Bertrand Russell
Scientific Method in Philosophy (1914), 12.
Science quotes on: | Earth (277) | Evolution (355) | Growth (75) | Histo
ry (174) | Human (198) | Philosopher (75) | Youth (38)
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice
married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wiv
es' mouths.
Bertrand Russell
In The Impact of Science on Society (1951), 7.
Science quotes on: | Aristotle (104) | Experiment (412) | Teeth (7)
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that chil
dren should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in the North, and that
if people marry too young the children will be female. He tells us that the bloo
d of females is blacker then that of males; that the pig is the only animal liab
le to measles; that an elephant suffering from insomnia should have its shoulder
s rubbed with salt, olive-oil, and warm water; that women have fewer teeth than

men, and so on. Nevertheless, he is considered by the great majority of philosop

hers a paragon of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
From An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish (1937, 1943), 19. Collected in The Basic
Writings of Bertrand Russell (2009), 63.
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(65) | Child (96) | Conception (34) | Elephant (6) | Female (10) | Fe
wer (3) | Insomnia (2) | Male (12) | Marriage (23) | North (2) | Parag
on (2) | Philosopher (75) | Pig (5) | Reputation (7) | Rub (2) | Salt
(17) | Shoulder (5) | Teeth (7) | Warm (7) | Water (142) | Wind (32)
| Winter (12) | Wisdom (96) | Woman (40) | Young (26)
Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovere
d the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians.
Bertrand Russell
The Principles of Mathematics (1903), 451.
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n (141) | Discovery (411) | Indian (8) | Number (102)
At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. ... I had not
imagined that there was anything so delicious in the world. After I had learned
the fifth proposition, my brother told me that it was generally considered diff
icult, but I had found no difficulty whatsoever. This was the first time it had
dawned on me that I might have some intelligence.
Bertrand Russell
In Autobiography: 1872-1914 (1967), Vol. 1, 37-38.
Science quotes on: | Biography (201)
Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means
and human folly as an end.
Bertrand Russell
In The Impact of Science on Society (1951), 97.
Science quotes on: | Science And Society (12)
But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto
discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize, for it is obvious that si
mplicity has been a part cause of their discovery, and can, therefore, give no g
round for the supposition that other undiscovered laws are equally simple.
Bertrand Russell
From Herbert Spencer lecture delivered at Oxford (1914) 'On Scientific Method in
Philosophy', collected in Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays (1919), 102.
Science quotes on: | Discovery (411) | Law (295) | Simplicity (97)
Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people As arithmetic
has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.
Bertrand Russell
From An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish (1937, 1943), 5. Collected in The Basic
Writings of Bertrand Russell (2009), 46.
Science quotes on: | Arithmetic (42) | Calculator (2) | Easy (14) | Less
(17) | Respect (26) | Sum (19)
Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long p
eriod, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain
within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?
Bertrand Russell
The Impact of Science on Society (1951, 1985), 109.
Science quotes on: | Decay (20) | Thought (198)
Descartes, the father of modern philosophy
would never so he assures us have been le
d to construct his philosophy if he had had only one teacher, for then he would

have believed what he had been told; but, finding that his professors disagreed
with each other, he was forced to conclude that no existing doctrine was certain
.
Bertrand Russell
From 'Philosophy For Laymen', collected in Unpopular Essays (1950, 1996), 57.
Science quotes on: | Assure (2) | Belief (161) | Certainty (69) | Conclu
de (5) | Construct (7) | Ren Descartes (33) | Doctrine (34) | Existing (5
) | Father (20) | Modern (53) | Philosophy (145) | Professor (24) | Te
acher (59) | Told (2)
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoo
r warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor,
and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.
Bertrand Russell
What I Believe (1925). In The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959 (199
2), 370.
Science quotes on: | Myth (25) | Science (998) | Tradition (18) | Truth
(495)
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of truth as in the e
ndeavour after a worthy manner of life.
Bertrand Russell
In An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish (1943), 23.
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our (24) | Fear (58) | Life (524) | Manner (14) | Pursuit (39) | Super
stition (36) | Truth (495) | Wisdom (96) | Worthy (7)
Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of
logic which is neither mental nor physical.
Bertrand Russell
Our Knowledge of the External World (1914), 201.
Science quotes on: | Assertion (17) | Find (66) | Logic (140) | Mental (
25) | Merit (16) | Physical (39) | Recognition (46)
Gradually,
the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the backgroun
d by the aspect of science as the power of manipulating nature. It is because sc
ience gives us the power of manipulating nature that it has more social importan
ce than art. Science as the pursuit of truth is the equal, but not the superior,
of art. Science as a technique, though it may have little intrinsic value, has
a practical importance to which art cannot aspire.
Bertrand Russell
In The Scientific Outlook (1931, 2009), xxiv.
Science quotes on: | Art (94) | Aspect (20) | Background (14) | Equal (2
7) | Importance (122) | Intrinsic (8) | Knowledge (749) | Nature (600)
| Power (119) | Practical (40) | Pursuit (39) | Science (998) | Science
And Art (106) | Social (20) | Superior (18) | Technique (15) | Technolo
gy (108) | Truth (495) | Value (76)
I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value,
that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside t
he realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attai
ned by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know
.
Bertrand Russell
Religion and Science (1935), 243.
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Discovery (411) | Falsehood (13) | Intellect (116) | Knowledge (749) |
Mankind (123) | Method (91) | Question (180) | Realm (21) | Truth (495)
| Value (76)

I do not believe that science per se is an adequate source of happiness, nor do

I think that my own scientific outlook has contributed very greatly to my own ha
ppiness, which I attribute to defecating twice a day with unfailing regularity.
Science in itself appears to me neutral, that is to say, it increases men's powe
r whether for good or for evil. An appreciation of the ends of life is something
which must be superadded to science if it is to bring happiness, but only the k
ind of society to which science is apt to give rise. I am afraid you may be disa
ppointed that I am not more of an apostle of science, but as I grow older, and n
o doubt as a result of the decay of my tissues, I begin to see the good life more
and more as a matter of balance and to dread all over-emphasis upon anyone ingre
dient.
Bertrand Russell
Letter to W. W. Norton, Publisher (27 Jan 1931). In The Autobiography of Bertran
d Russell, 1914-1944 (1968), Vol. 2, 200.
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ce (26) | Belief (161) | Decay (20) | Disappointment (6) | Dread (6) |
Emphasis (11) | End (62) | Evil (34) | Good (97) | Happiness (61) | I
ncrease (46) | Ingredient (7) | Life (524) | Mankind (123) | Neutral (4)
| Power (119) | Regularity (12) | Society (94) | Source (41)
I had at one time a very bad fever of which I almost died. In my fever I had a l
ong consistent delirium. I dreamt that I was in Hell, and that Hell is a place f
ull of all those happenings that are improbable but not impossible. The effects
of this are curious. Some of the damned, when they first arrive below, imagine t
hat they will beguile the tedium of eternity by games of cards. But they find th
is impossible, because, whenever a pack is shuffled, it comes out in perfect ord
er, beginning with the Ace of Spades and ending with the King of Hearts. There i
s a special department of Hell for students of probability. In this department t
here are many typewriters and many monkeys. Every time that a monkey walks on a
typewriter, it types by chance one of Shakespeare's sonnets. There is another pl
ace of torment for physicists. In this there are kettles and fires, but when the
kettles are put on the fires, the water in them freezes. There are also stuffy
rooms. But experience has taught the physicists never to open a window because,
when they do, all the air rushes out and leaves the room a vacuum.
Bertrand Russell
'The Metaphysician's Nightmare', Nightmares of Eminent Persons and Other Stories
(1954), 38-9.
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199) | Department (13) | Dream (43) | Effect (88) | Eternity (23) | Ex
perience (151) | Fever (5) | Fire (67) | Freeze (3) | Game (30) | Happ
ening (26) | Hell (15) | Imagination (144) | Impossibility (39) | Improb
able (5) | Kettle (2) | Monkey (26) | Opening (11) | Order (76) | Perf
ection (45) | Physicist (80) | Possibility (76) | Room (12) | Rush (5)
| William Shakespeare (64) | Shuffle (3) | Sonnet (4) | Special (33) |
Tedium (2) | Torment (8) | Typewriter (6) | Vacuum (18) | Walk (28) |
Water (142) | Window (13)
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is mem
ory, using this word in its broadest sense to include every influence of past ex
perience on present reactions.
Bertrand Russell
In Portraits from Memory: and Other Essays (1956), 143.
Science quotes on: | Memory (50) | Mind (307)
If the matter is one that can be settled by observation, make the observation yo
urself. Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have few
er teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mou
th open while he counted.
Bertrand Russell

In An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish (1943), 22.

Science quotes on: | Aristotle (104) | Avoid (9) | Count (18) | Error (1
61) | Experiment (412) | Mistake (45) | Observation (293) | Proof (149)
| Tooth (12)
In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compo
unded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the protozoa to ma
n there is nowhere a very wide gap either in structure or in behaviour. From thi
s fact it is a highly probable inference that there is also nowhere a very wide
mental gap.
Bertrand Russell
Lecture II, 'Instinct and Habit', The Analysis of Mind
Science quotes on: | Mind (307)
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. ... In art nothing worth doing can be done without genius; in science even
a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.
Bertrand Russell
Essay, 'The Place Of Science In A Liberal Education.' In Mysticism and Logic: an
d Other Essays (1919), 41.
Science quotes on: | Achievement (80) | Application (78) | Art (94) | Ca
pacity (22) | Genius (106) | Invention (196) | Method (91) | Moderate (2
) | Predecessor (14) | Science (998) | Successor (5) | Supreme (8)
In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who
has gradually concentrated all power within himself
may have had anything but a
public motive The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party P
ress have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the r
hetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives He retires from the wor
ld after the world has retired from him.
Bertrand Russell
In The Conquest of Happiness (1930, 2006), 79.
Science quotes on: | Analysis (90) | Genuine (12) | Mistake (45) | Motiv
e (17) | Party (4) | Phrase (9) | Platform (2) | Politics (57) | Power
(119) | Press (9) | Public (43) | Rhetoric (2) | Statesman (7) | Trut
h (495) | World (294)
It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatment
s that have been believed in during the long history of medical folly have been
such as caused acute suffering to the patient. When anesthetics were discovered,
pious people considered them an attempt to evade the will of God. It was pointe
d out, however, that when God extracted Adam's rib He put him into a deep sleep.
This proved that anesthetics are all right for men; women, however, ought to su
ffer, because of the curse of Eve.
Bertrand Russell
In An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish (1943), 13.
Science quotes on: | Acute (3) | Adam And Eve (3) | Anesthetic (2) | Cur
se (4) | Folly (12) | Futile (3) | Medicine (196) | Pain (56) | Patien
t (61) | Rib (2) | Science And Religion (173) | Sleep (26) | Suffering (
21) | Treatment (63)
John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!
Bertrand Russell
As quoted by Gilbert Ryle from a conversation he had with Russell during travel
on a train on Locke with Gilbert Ryle. Ryle recounted this to D.C. Dennett, who
used it as a chapter epigraph in his Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the
Meaning of Life (1995), 26.
Science quotes on: | Common Sense (44) | John Locke (31)

Man is a rational animal so at least I have been told. Aristotle, so far as I know
, was the first man to proclaim explicitly that man is a rational animal. His re
ason for this view was that some people can do sums.
It is in virtue of the inte
llect that man is a rational animal. The intellect is shown in various ways, but
most emphatically by mastery of arithmetic. The Greek system of numerals was ve
ry bad, so that the multiplication table was quite difficult, and complicated ca
lculations could only be made by very clever people.
Bertrand Russell
From An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish (1937, 1943), 5. Collected in The Basic
Writings of Bertrand Russell (2009), 45.
Science quotes on: | Animal (162) | Aristotle (104) | Arithmetic (42) |
Calculation (48) | Clever (6) | Complication (18) | Difficulty (83) | Gr
eece (6) | Intellect (116) | Mastery (11) | Rational (20) | Reason (187)
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty
cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our wea
ker nature, without the georgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely
pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, wh
ich is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics a
s surely as in poetry.
Bertrand Russell
Essay, 'The Study of Mathematics' (1902), collected in Philosophical Essays (191
0), 73-74. Also collected in Mysticism and Logic: And Other Essays (1919), 60.
Science quotes on: | Beauty (107) | Mathematics (405) | Sculpture (6) |
Truth (495)
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, mo
re than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for waning faith. Ev
ery great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and s
ustaining a lofty habit of mind; and this purpose should be kept always in view
throughout the teaching and learning of mathematics.
Bertrand Russell
Essay, 'The Study of Mathematics' (1902), collected in Philosophical Essays (191
0), 73-74. Also collected in Mysticism and Logic: And Other Essays (1919), 73.
Science quotes on: | Mathematics (405) | Truth (495)
One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the tota
l destruction of London. I think the war will last 30 years, and leave a world w
ithout civilised people, from which everything will have to build afresh a process
taking (say) 500 years.
Stated just one month after the Hiroshima atomic explosion. Russell became one o
f the best-known antinuclear activists of his era.
Bertrand Russell
Letter to Gamel Brenan (1 Sep 1945). In Nicholas Griffin (Ed.), The Selected Let
ters of Bertrand Russell (2002), 410.
Science quotes on: | Atomic Bomb (74) | War (88)
One of the chiefest triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered
what mathematics really is.
Bertrand Russell
International Monthly (1901), 4, 84. In Robert doward Moritz, Memorabilia Mathema
tica (1914), 109.
Science quotes on: | Mathematics (405) | Truth (495)
One of the main purposes of scientific inference is to justify beliefs which we
entertain already; but as a rule they are justified with a difference. Our pre-s
cientific general beliefs are hardly ever without exceptions; in science, a law
with exceptions can only be tolerated as a makeshift. Scientific laws, when we h

ave reason to think them accurate, are different in form from the common-sense r
ules which have exceptions: they are always, at least in physics, either differe
ntial equations, or statistical averages. It might be thought that a statistical
average is not very different from a rule with exceptions, but this would be a
mistake. Statistics, ideally, are accurate laws about large groups; they differ
from other laws only in being about groups, not about individuals. Statistical l
aws are inferred by induction from particular statistics, just as other laws are
inferred from particular single occurrences.
Bertrand Russell
The Analysis of Matter (1927), 191.
Science quotes on: | Accuracy (40) | Average (17) | Belief (161) | Commo
n Sense (44) | Difference (142) | Differential Equation (4) | Entertainmen
t (6) | Exception (17) | Group (26) | Individual (68) | Inference (16)
| Justification (24) | Large (28) | Law (295) | Makeshift (2) | Mistake
(45) | Occurrence (25) | Physics (174) | Purpose (76) | Reason (187) |
Rule (60) | Science (998) | Statistics (96) | Toleration (4)
One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's wo
rk is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell
Autobiography
Science quotes on: | Work (247)
Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means
to say. (1931)
Bertrand Russell
In The Scientific Outlook (1931, 2009), 57.
Science quotes on: | Logic (140) | Mathematics (405) | Physicist (80)
Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoan to the phi
losopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfor
tunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.
Bertrand Russell
From Herbert Spencer lecture delivered at Oxford (1914) 'On Scientific Method in
Philosophy', collected in Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays (1919), 106.
Science quotes on: | Evolution (355) | Philosopher (75)
People are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
In Dr. N Sreedharan, Quotations of Wit and Wisdom (2007), 20.
Science quotes on: | Education (190) | Ignorance (118)
Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there
is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion. So whenever you find yourse
lf getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard, you will proba
bly find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence war
rants.?
Bertrand Russell
In An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish (1943), 22.
Science quotes on: | Anger (10) | Arithmetic (42) | Belief (161) | Diffe
rence (142) | Evidence (94) | Knowledge (749) | Opinion (91) | Persecuti
on (5) | Theology (22)
Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinion
s about, but which they have no knowledge about. Therefore every advance in know
ledge robs philosophy of some problems which formerly it had and will belong to s
cience.
Bertrand Russell
'The Philosophy of Logical Atomism' (1918). In Betrand Russell and Robert Charle
s Marsh (Ed.), Logic and Knowledge: Essays, 1901-1950 (1988), 281.

Science quotes on: | Knowledge (749) | Philosophy (145) | Problem (200) |

Science (998)
Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher sta
te of development than any other science. (1931)
Bertrand Russell
In The Scientific Outlook (1931, 2009), 42.
Science quotes on: | Physics (174) | Simplicity (97)
Pure mathematics consists entirely of such asseverations as that, if such and su
ch is a proposition is true of anything, then such and such another propositions
is true of that thing. It is essential not to discuss whether the first proposi
tion is really true, and not to mention what the anything is of which it is supp
osed to be true.
If our hypothesis is about anything and not about some one or m
ore particular things, then our deductions constititute mathematics. Thus mathem
atics may be defined as the the subject in which we never know what we are talki
ng about, not whether what we are saying is true.
Bertrand Russell
'Recent Work on the Principles of Mathematics', International Monthly (1901), 4,
84. In Robert douard Moritz, Memorabilia Mathematica (1914), 7.
Science quotes on: | Deduction (40) | Definition (94) | Hypothesis (161)
| Mathematics (405) | Proposition (33) | Truth (495) | Understanding (256
)
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fa
de away as we adopt read on and science as our guidelines.
Bertrand Russell
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Science quotes on: | Adopt (3) | Infancy (5) | Intelligence (89) | Left
(6) | Reading (33) | Religion (132) | Science (998) | Science And Religi
on (173)
Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the ge
nerations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure tho
ught can dwell in its natural home...
Bertrand Russell
'The Study of Mathematics', Philosophical Essays (1910), 73-74. In J. E. Creight
on (Ed.), Evander Bradley McGilvary, 'Reviews of Books', The Philosophical Revie
w (1911), Vol 20, 422.
Science quotes on: | Mathematics (405)
Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.
Bertrand Russell
In Bertrand Russell Speaks his Mind (1960), 11.
Science quotes on: | Knowledge (749) | Philosophy (145) | Science (998)
Science is what you more or less know and philosophy is what you do not know.
Bertrand Russell
'The Philosophy of Logical Atomism' (1918). In Betrand Russell and Robert Charle
s Marsh (Ed.), Logic and Knowledge: Essays, 1901-1950 (1988), 281.
Science quotes on: | Philosophy (145) | Science (998)
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Bertrand Russell
In History of Western Philosophy (2004), 26.
Science quotes on: | Imagination (144) | Knowledge (749) | Limit (37) |
Science (998)

Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achiev
e a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved. But among e
nds that can be achieved our choice must be decided by other than purely scienti
fic considerations. If a man were to say, I hate the human race, and I think it w
ould be a good thing if it were exterminated, we could say, Well, my dear sir, let
us begin the process with you. But this is hardly argument, and no amount of sci
ence could prove such a man mistaken.
Bertrand Russell
'The Science to Save us from Science', New York Times Magazine (19 Mar 1950). Co
llected in M. Gardner (ed.), Great Essays in Science (1950), 396-397.
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Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a
hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being concerned with particular fac
ts, and the highest with some general law, governing everything in the universe.
The various levels in the hierarchy have a two-fold logical connection, travell
ing one up, one down; the upward connection proceeds by induction, the downward
by deduction.
Bertrand Russell
In The Scientific Outlook (1931, 2009), 38.
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Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, i
s in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as will enab
le the observer to discover general laws governing facts of the kind in question
. The two stages, first of observation, and second of inference to a law, are bo
th essential, and each is susceptible of almost indefinite refinement. (1931)
Bertrand Russell
In The Scientific Outlook (1931, 2009), 3.
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Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the l
aws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do.
Bertrand Russell
In The Scientific Outlook (1931, 2009), 77.
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The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an
intellectual vice. If you take your children for a picnic on a doubtful day, the
y will demand a dogmatic answer as to whether it will be fine or wet, and be dis
appointed in you when you cannot be sure.
Bertrand Russell
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The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a tra
ining for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a purely utilit
arian point of view as the road to money, not as the gateway to wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
In 'Education as a Political Institution', Atlantic Monthly, (Jun 1916), 117 755
. Also in Principles of Social Reconstruction (1916, 2013), 113.
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The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveri
es of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the pri
nciples of mathematics consists of the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.
Bertrand Russell
In Bertrand Russell, The Principles of Mathematics (1903), 5.
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The first man who said fire burns was employing scientific method, at any rate if
he had allowed himself to be burnt several times. This man had already passed th
rough the two stages of observation and generalization. He had not, however, wha
t scientific technique demands a careful choice of significant facts on the one ha
nd, and, on the other hand, various means of arriving at laws otherwise than my
mere generalization. (1931)
Bertrand Russell
In The Scientific Outlook (1931, 2009), 3.
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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which E
nergy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Bertrand Russell
Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), 10.
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The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking a
s a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival
.
Bertrand Russell
Interview, Playboy (Mar 1963). 10, No. 3, 42. In Kenneth Rose One Nation Undergr
ound: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture (2004), 39.
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The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic force
s, the more amazing becomes what human beings have achieved.
Bertrand Russell
New Hopes for a Changing World (1952), 187.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no go
od evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.
Bertrand Russell
Unpopular Essays (1950, 2007), 104.
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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem wort
h stating and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it
Bertrand Russell
The Philosophy of Logical Atomism (1959), 10.

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The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ord
ered beauty.
Bertrand Russell
In A History of Western Philosophy (1945), 33.
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The road to happiness
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In Praise of Idleness
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The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in
the interest of the desire to know.
Bertrand Russell
Mysticism and Logic: And Other Essays (1919), 44.
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The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowl
edge. To say that a fact is significant in science, is to say that it helps to e
stablish or refute some general law; for science, though it starts from observat
ion of the particular, is not concerned essentially with the particular, but wit
h the general. A fact, in science, is not a mere fact, but an instance. In this
the scientist differs from the artist, who, if he deigns to notice facts at all,
is likely to notice them in all their particularity.
Bertrand Russell
In The Scientific Outlook (1931, 2009), 38.
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The trouble with the world is that
ull of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
Essay, originally published in the
tupidity' (10 May 1933). Collected
says 1931-1935 (2014), 28.
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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than man, wh
ich is the touchstone of highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as su
rely as in poetry.
Bertrand Russell
Essay, 'The Study of Mathematics' (1902), collected in Philosophical Essays (191
0), 73-74. Also collected in Mysticism and Logic: And Other Essays (1919), 60.
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The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this
purpose has any similarity to ours.
Bertrand Russell
Portraits from Memory and Other Essays
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The world of mathematics, which you condemn, is really a beautiful world; it has
nothing to do with life and death and human sordidness, but is eternal, cold an
d passionless. To me, pure, mathematics is one of the highest forms of art; it h
as a sublimity quite special to itself, and an immense dignity derived, from the
fact that its world is exempt I, from change and time. I am quite serious in th
is. The only difficulty is that none but mathematicians can enter this enchanted
region, and they hardly ever have a sense of beauty. And mathematics is the onl
y thing we know of that is capable of perfection; in thinking about it we become
Gods.
Bertrand Russell
Letter to Helen Thomas (30 Dec 1901). Quoted in Nicholas Griffin (ed.), The Sele
cted Letters of Bertrand Russell (1992), Vol. 1, 224.
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There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable u
ntruths than unfashionable truths.
Bertrand Russell
Principles of Social Reconstruction (1916). Also in An Outline of Intellectual R
ubbish (1943), reprinted in Unpopular Essays (1950) and collected in 'An Outline
of Intellectual Rubbish', The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell (2009), 61.
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There is as much difference between a collection of mentally free citizens and a
community molded by modern methods of propaganda as there is between a heap of
raw materials and a battleship.
Bertrand Russell
From An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish (1937, 1943), 9. Collected in The Basic
Writings of Bertrand Russell (2009), 61.
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This method is, to define as the number of a class the class of all classes simi
lar to the given class. Membership of this class of classes (considered as a pre
dicate) is a common property of all the similar classes and of no others; moreov
er every class of the set of similar classes has to the set of a relation which
it has to nothing else, and which every class has to its own set. Thus the condi
tions are completely fulfilled by this class of classes, and it has the merit of
being determinate when a class is given, and of being different for two classes
which are not similar. This, then, is an irreproachable definition of the numbe
r of a class in purely logical terms.
Bertrand Russell
The Principles of Mathematics (1903), 115.
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the lon
ging for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering o
f mankind.
Bertrand Russell
The Autobiography of Betrand Russell (1998), 9, first sentence of the Prologue.
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Throughout the last four hundred years, during which the growth of science had g
radually shown men how to acquire knowledge of the ways of nature and mastery ov
er natural forces, the clergy have fought a losing battle against science, in as
tronomy and geology, in anatomy and physiology, in biology and psychology and so
ciology. Ousted from one position, they have taken up another. After being worst
ed in astronomy, they did their best to prevent the rise of geology; they fought
against Darwin in biology, and at the present time they fight against scientifi
c theories of psychology and education. At each stage, they try to make the publ
ic forget their earlier obscurantism, in order that their present obscurantism m
ay not be recognized for what it is.
Bertrand Russell
From An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish (1937, 1943), 6. Collected in The Basic
Writings of Bertrand Russell (2009), 47.
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To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appea
r trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is an animal. (
1959)
Bertrand Russell
My Philosophical Development (1995), 207.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
Bertrand Russell
The Conquest of Happiness
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We are
led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call hard data and
oft data. This distinction is a matter of degree, and must not be pressed; but if
not taken too seriously it may help to make the situation clear. I mean by hard d
ata those which resist the solvent influence of critical reflection, and by soft d
ata those which, under the operation of this process, become to our minds more o
r less doubtful.
Bertrand Russell
Our Knowledge of the External World (1925), 75.
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What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the ninet
eenth.
Bertrand Russell
A History of Western Philosophy (1945), 725.
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What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to a
ssimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mi
nd with ever-renewed encouragement.
Bertrand Russell
Essay, 'The Study of Mathematics' (1902), collected in Philosophical Essays (191
0), 73-74. Also collected in Mysticism and Logic: And Other Essays (1919), 60.

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When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England a
nd America, with the enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impi
ous attempt to defeat the will of God. For, as all right-thinking people were aw
are, lightning is sent by God to punish impiety or some other grave sin the virtuo
us are never struck by lightning. Therefore if God wants to strike any one, Benj
amin Franklin [and his lightning-rod] ought not to defeat His design; indeed, to
do so is helping criminals to escape. But God was equal to the occasion, if we
are to believe the eminent Dr. Price, one of the leading divines of Boston. Ligh
tning having been rendered ineffectual by the iron points invented by the sagacio
us Dr. Franklin, Massachusetts was shaken by earthquakes, which Dr. Price perceiv
ed to be due to God s wrath at the iron points. In a sermon on the subject he said, In
Boston are more erected than elsewhere in New England, and Boston seems to be m
ore dreadfully shaken. Oh! there is no getting out of the mighty hand of God. App
arently, however, Providence gave up all hope of curing Boston of its wickedness
, for, though lightning-rods became more and more common, earthquakes in Massach
usetts have remained rare.
Bertrand Russell
In An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish (1943), 6-7.
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When it was first proposed to establish laboratories at Cambridge, Todhunter, th
e mathematician, objected that it was unnecessary for students to see experiment
s performed, since the results could be vouched for by their teachers, all of th
em of the highest character, and many of them clergymen of the Church of England
.
Bertrand Russell
In The Scientific Outlook (1931, 2009), 49.
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While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ; one is certain of knowin
g, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whet
her of knowledge or of ignorance. Knowledge is not so precise a concept as is co
mmonly thought. Instead of saying I know this , we ought to say I more or less know
something more or less like this . Knowledge in practical affairs has not the cert
ainty or the precision of arithmetic.
Bertrand Russell
From 'Philosophy For Laymen', collected in Unpopular Essays (1950, 1996), 38-39.
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William James used to preach the will to believe. For my part, I should wish to pr
each the will to doubt.
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to
find out, which is the exact opposite.
Bertrand Russell
From Conway Memorial Lecture, South Place Institute, London (24 Mar 1922), print
ed as Free Thought and Official Propaganda (1922), 14. Collected in Sceptical Es
says (1928, 2004), 129.
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Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the eart
h's surface relative to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so
. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly p
aid.
Bertrand Russell
In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935), 12.
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[Man]
his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are
but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism,
no intensity of thought and feeling can preserve an individual life beyond the g
rave; that all the labour of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, al
l the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction in the vast
death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must i
nevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins
Bertrand Russell
'A Free Man's Worship' (1903). In Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on
Religion and Related Subjects (1967), 107.
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The difference between myth and science is the difference between divine inspira
tion of 'unaided reason' (as Bertrand Russell put it) on the one hand and theori
es developed in observational contact with the real world on the other. It is th
e difference between the belief in prophets and critical thinking, between Credo
quia absurdum (I believe because it is absurd Tertullian) and De omnibus est dubi
tandum (Everything should be questioned Descartes). To try to write a grand cosmic
al drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance
in increasingly large regions of space and time is science.
Hannes Alfvn
In 'Cosmology: Myth or Science?'. Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy (1984),
5, 79-98.
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Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wo
nders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard and earnestly in the New Lecture H
all. And when he was done, Professor Whitehead, who presided, thanked him for hi
s efforts, and not least for leaving the vast darkness of the subject unobscured.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Quoted in Robert Oppenheimer, The Open Mind (1955), 102.
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As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the
sun.
Martin Gardner
In When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish: And Other Speculations About This a
nd That (2009), 124.
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When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable a
nodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the most austere and t
he most remote, and a mathematician should be of all men the one who can most ea
sily take refuge where, as Bertrand Russell says, one at least of our nobler impu
lses can best escape from the dreary exile of the actual world.
G. H. Hardy
In A Mathematician's Apology (1940, 2012), 43.
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[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Ber
trand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being my favorite speakers. (The la
st, in a meeting at King's College, converted me to vegetarianism - for most of
two years!).
Raymond Cattell
Autobiography collected in Gardner Lindzey (ed.), A History of Psychology in Aut
obiography (1973), Vol. 6, 64.
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