Quotes About Bertrand

He had a great intellectual influence upon my generation, though in retrospect I do not think it was a very good one.

I will not say that the average forethought of a community is inversely proportional to the rate of interest, though this is a view that might be upheld.

The above proposition is occasionally useful.

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.

Obloquy is, to most men, more painful than death; that is one reason why, in times of collective excitement, so few men venture to dissent from the prevailing opinion.

There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.

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

Bertrand Russell describes the same idea thus: "the raw material out of which the world is built up is not of two sorts, one matter and the other mind; it is simply arranged in different patterns by its inter-relations: some arrangements may be called mental, while others may be called physical.

Other mathematical geniuses, Einstein and Bertrand Russell among them, recount similarly revelatory experiences in early adolescence.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.

There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist

When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere... the world will purge itself. - Bertrand Zobrist

that read IN THIS PLACE, ON THIS DATE, THE WORLD WAS CHANGED FOREVER. The plaque was signed: BERTRAND ZOBRIST. The date was tomorrow.

So Wittgenstein went to Trinity College, Cambridge, to study under Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) who was a lecturer in mathematical logic. This was to lead to a passionate intellectual friendship between these two great philosophers in which both were transformed.

I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything.

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.

Betrand Russell wrote that "To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead".

Bertrand Russell wrote that 'To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead'. Maybe that was her problem.