November 2009
10 posts
“The whole conception of ‘sin’ is one which I find very puzzling, doubtless owing...”
– Bertrand Russell (via cocknbull)
“I’m rather afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the...”
– Alan Turing
“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is...”
– Bertrand Russell
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“Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy...”
– Bertrand Russell (via Positive Atheism’s Big List of Bertrand Russell Quotations)
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem
In 1931, the Czech-born mathematician Kurt Gödel demonstrated that within any given branch of mathematics, there would always be some propositions that couldn’t be proven either true or false using the rules and axioms … of that mathematical branch itself. You might be able to prove every conceivable statement about numbers within a system by going outside the system in order to come up with new...
'What I Have Lived For' by Bertrand Russell
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy—ecstasy so great...
“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their...”
– Bertrand Russell
