Bertrand Russell Quotes

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong'.

Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.

I fix things all the time. Every time I do a solo, I re-check it and correct things that don't hit the mark.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

The thing I love about making movies is the peace of mind that I know I don't have to be perfect the first time. I can be perfect the second time or the third time.

Curiosity is the process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.

After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.

To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.

My initial ideas are just a starting place. As a record goes along, it becomes more about making discoveries and getting excited about new songs.

Sometimes I do that quite a lot, go back and forth a lot between ideas. Try things out.

To learn means by practice, by inquiring, by analyzing to find out what is, not what was.

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

Just build things and find out if they work.

It is frequently more rewarding merely to ask pertinent questions. It may get someone to go and look for an answer.

I really know so little about recording, and I'm learning as I go.

Scientists never stop asking. They're little kids who never grew up.

We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.