Bertrand Russell | society
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
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Bertrand Russell | science
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
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Bertrand Russell | science
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Bertrand Russell | science
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
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Bertrand Russell | respect
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
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Bertrand Russell | respect
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
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Bertrand Russell | respect
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
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Bertrand Russell | religion
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
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Bertrand Russell | religion
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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