Bertrand Russell Quotes
If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
Russell, Bertrand. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays. Longmans, Green and Co., 1918, p. 81.
Greece claims him, but he was born and worked in Asia Minor in what is now Turkey. He was right on and our civilization did not realize that he was correct until 2,000 years later. And we keep discovering smaller and smaller parts.
Germany had tried to invade Russia but it was too large for the resources that Germany devoted to it. The Russians took huge civilian and military casualties (22 million) but with U. S. material supplies, they bogged the Germans down and eventually Hitler under pressure from his generals, gave up the Russian invasion.
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell OM FRS was a British polymath, philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate. Bertrand Russell was one of the most influential and widely known intellectual figures of the twentieth century. In 1950 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his extensive contributions to world literature and for his “rationality and humanity, as a fearless champion of free speech and free thought in the West.“
