I am feeling a little better, but the side-effects of the antibiotic I am on are not fun. I guess it’s better than being sick. I still feel very run down though. So anyway, here are some quotes from Bertrand Russell that I like, I assume the first one will sound familiar to you:
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
