Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in the North, and that if people marry too young the children will be female. He tells us that the blood of females is blacker than that of males; that the pig is the only animal liable to measles; that an elephant suffering from insomnia should have its shoulders rubbed with salt, olive-oil, and warm water; that women have fewer teeth than men, and so on. Nevertheless, he is considered by the great majority of philosophers a paragon of wisdom.
Bertrand RussellThe very best proof that something can be done is that someone has already done it.
Bertrand RussellThe satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.
Bertrand RussellOne of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand RussellReligion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man
Bertrand RussellScience, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being concerned with particular facts, and the highest with some general law, governing everything in the universe. The various levels in the hierarchy have a two-fold logical connection, travelling one up, one down; the upward connection proceeds by induction, the downward by deduction.
Bertrand Russell