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Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.
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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
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(on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account of the events that I arbitrarily chose to write of. But to my mind, a man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if, indeed, such man exists.
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Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.
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Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.
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There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.
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To fear love is to fear life.
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What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
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I FIND IT SO DIFFICULT NOT TO HATE, WHEN I DO NOT HATE I FEEL WE FEW ARE SO LONELY IN THE WORLD
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Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
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One is always a little afraid of love, but above all, one is afraid of pain or causing pain.
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Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.
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Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
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It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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