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The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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We may often do as we please - but we cannot please as we please.
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A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.
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Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
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