Quotes of: Bertrand-russell Keyword

Men ras är inte biologi; ras är sociologi. Ras är inte genotyp; ras är fenotyp. Ras är betydelsefullt på grund av rasismen.

Americanah

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.

Orson Pratt

On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet.

Orson Pratt

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

Paul Dirac

Well, as you know, there are 24 hours in every day. And if that's not enough, you've always got the nights!

Ronald Graham

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

Steven Strogatz

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

Tom G. Palmer

Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.

Leonhard Euler

Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum.

Leonhard Euler

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

Freya Stark

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Aristotle

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

Stephen Hawking

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

Benjamin Banneker

Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on.

Tom Hodgkinson