Quotes of: Bertrand-russell Keyword

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Aristotle

I won't be satisfied until I've put the entire security industry out of work.

Daniel J. Bernstein

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.

Lord Kelvin

The emotion at the point of technical breakthrough is better than wine, women and song put together.

Richard Hamming

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

David Hilbert

I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.

Graham Nelson

Adaptability to change is itself a hallmark of successful education.

Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers

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Treatise On Natural Philosophy

Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

Ronald Fisher

In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.

Ronald Fisher

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

Ronald Fisher

Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions.

Serge Lang

Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.

Serge Lang

The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.

Lord Kelvin

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The world is so different for a child, waking in the mornings, wide-eyed and ready to take it all in.

Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark