But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.

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

But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.

I suddenly stopped and looked out at the sea and thought, my God, how beautiful this is ... for 26 years I had never really looked at it before.

Theism is so confused and the sentences in which "God" appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to speak of belief or unbelief, faith or unfaith, is logically impossible.

The only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and respect: tolerance of one another’s customs and opinions; respect for one another’s rights and feelings; awareness of one another’s needs.

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.