But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize, for it is obvious that simplicity has been a part cause of their discovery, and can, therefore, give no ground for the supposition that other undiscovered laws are equally simple.
Bertrand RussellThe first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.
Bertrand RussellIf the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.
Bertrand RussellIn his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this period, he was a bad man. Then he became good, abandoned his daughter, adopted correct principles and wrote bad poetry.
Bertrand Russell