Quotes About Bertrand

If you're suggesting that I'm after his money-" "I know perfectly well which part of Bertrand you're after, Simmonds.

He's not so bad-looking," I said, and it was true: the conductor was tall and well made, with a strong jawline and heavy, masculine features. "Non, not so bad," said Bertrand, "but he is cruel. He call me names, he call my mother names, he insult my country—not even my country, but France, even though I try to explain—" "There's no point in trying to explain geography to that type.

The experience of riding in a subway or elevator calls to mind Bertrand Russell's remark that much of modern anxiety stems from the time we spend in unnatural proximity to strangers without the preliminary sniffing that is instinctive in animals, including us.

The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.

Decidability is impossible. We are back in the land of paradox, with Epimenides declaring that he is a liar and Bertrand Russell upsetting Frege's applecart

For my part, I prefer the ontological argument, the cosmological argument and the rest of the old stock-in-trade, to the sentimental illogicality that has sprung from Rousseau.

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The Open-Closed Principle (OCP) was coined in 1988 by Bertrand Meyer.1 It says: A software artifact should be open for extension but closed for modification.

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.

[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being my favorite speakers.

The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages ; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?"

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.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

This [Hegel's philosophy] illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth

Mathematics takes us still further from what is human into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual world, but ever possible world, must conform.

After five years spent in retirement, he died of a chill caught while experimenting on refrigeration by stuffing a chicken full of snow. Bacon

His most important books are his two Logics, and these must be understood if the reasons for his views on other subjects are to be rightly apprehended.

it is flattering to suppose that the universe is controlled by a Being who shares our taste and prejudices.

This is one of those views which are so absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.

But history is perhaps an even better antidote to anarchic individualism as well as to a lifeless traditionalism

If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument.