If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.
Bertrand RussellThere's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.
Bertrand RussellHegel's philosophy is so odd that one would not have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it, but he did. He set it out with so much obscurity that people thought it must be profound. It can quite easily be expounded lucidly in words of one syllable, but then its absurdity becomes obvious.
Bertrand RussellThe Axiom of Choice is necessary to select a set from an infinite number of socks, but not an infinite number of shoes.
Bertrand Russell