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What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.
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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
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No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.
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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.
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Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.
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In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.
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Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.
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Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone reading his outburst of furious indignation against this opinion will be forced to the conclusion that he enjoyed inflicting floggings.
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In considering irregular appearances, there are certain very natural mistakes which must be avoided.
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Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.
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We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.
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Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.
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If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.
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What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.
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The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.
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The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a way as to make it evident that the necessity is felt to be regrettable.
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Fervent religious believers sacrifice pleasures of the body, but instead enjoy pleasures of the mind, including the joy of knowing that those men who didn't follow their religion would be tortured for eternity.
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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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