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Bertrand Russell Quotes: Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.
         

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.


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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

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We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.



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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.



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