Quotes About Russell

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.

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

My favorite movie is 'The Women' from 1939. It's been my favorite movie since I was like 12 years old. I love the dialogue, really. It's just a lot of really strong female performances. Rosalind Russell kills it, you know.

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

Wilf: God bless the cactuses! The Doctor: That's cactI. Alien: And that's racist!

Good people can disagree - all you want is honesty, because you know, if I disagree, I'm willing to debate you on that, and then let the public decide what's good policy and bad policy.

Self-evidence, of which Russell has said so much, can only be discarded in logic by language itself preventing every logical mistake. That logic is a priori consists in the fact that we cannot think illogically.

In order to avoid these errors, we must employ a symbolism which excludes them, by not applying the same sign in different symbols and by not applying signs in the same way which signify in different ways. A symbolism, that is to say, which obeys the rules of logical grammar—of logical syntax. (The logical symbolism of Frege and Russell is such a language, which, however, does still not exclude all errors.)

The basic evil of Russell's logic, as also of mine in the Tractatus, is that what a proposition is is illustrated by a few commonplace examples, and then presupposed as understood in full generality.

Are you brothers or something then?" Russell exchanged a glance with Francis and they both smiled faintly, before the fair-haired man took her arm to urge her away from the bed. "Or something," Russell

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

description is deadly to a prose poem.

I believe Finland's economy is based on Moomin juice.

We should qualify this observation to say that a constitution is more likely to last if it does not embody a misfit economic theory.

there are enduring standards superior to our petty private stock of rationality.

The result is a book that cannot be read easily. It requires study. We hope that some will have the patience and inclination to do so.

Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'

Hubbard had this incredible dynamism, a disarming, magnetic and overwhelming personality.

It was a philosophy which was supposedly fully expounded in Excalibur, an unpublished book Ron was first said to have written in 1938.

He developed his revolutionary philosophy, with its grounding not in the Bible or ancient writers but in human reason, and became famous and infamous for it.