There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or rejected, because it is bound up with modern technique; it is essential alike to prosperity in peace and to victory in war. That is, perhaps from an intellectual point of view, the most hopeful feature of our age, and the one which makes it most likely that we shall escape complete submersion in some new or old superstition.

The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists of the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.

Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.