Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.

There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.

It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.

Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?

I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.