Quote

Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved.

Bertrand Russell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
Analytic Philosopher
Autobiographer
Epistemologist
Essayist
Journalist
Logician
Mathematician
Metaphysician
Peace Activist
Philosopher
Tryleg
Bertrand Arthur William Russell
Russell
Bertrand Russell
3rd Earl Russell
Bertrand Russell
Earl Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell
3rd Earl Russell
Approach
Accuracy
Eternal
Dogma
Approximations
Stage
Achieved
Approximation
Science
Truths
Dogmas
Truth
Final
Successive
Doe
Finals
Immutable
Without
Aim
Claiming
Complete
Establishing

More quotes by Bertrand Russell

Image
There are two motives for reading a book one, that you enjoy it the other, that you can boast about it.
Bertrand Russell
Image
Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.
Bertrand Russell
Image
Do not feel certain of anything.
Bertrand Russell
Image
Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.
Bertrand Russell
Image
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
Bertrand Russell
Image
In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this period, he was a bad man. Then he became good, abandoned his daughter, adopted correct principles and wrote bad poetry.
Bertrand Russell
Image
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell
Image
Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.
Bertrand Russell
Image
The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children.
Bertrand Russell
Image
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
Bertrand Russell
Image
The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own conditions or those of the world at large.
Bertrand Russell
Image
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
Bertrand Russell
Image
Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.
Bertrand Russell
Image
A smile happens in a flash, but its memory can last a lifetime.
Bertrand Russell
Image
When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.
Bertrand Russell
Image
So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.
Bertrand Russell
Image
What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?
Bertrand Russell
Image
Choose your parents wisely.
Bertrand Russell
Image
To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.
Bertrand Russell
Image
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Bertrand Russell