Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest peopleโฆ As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.
Bertrand RussellMan can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.
Bertrand RussellIt seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not because you think it's true.
Bertrand RussellBoys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.
Bertrand Russell