Bertrand Russell Quotes

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers.

It has cost me years of thought to arrive at certain results, by many believed to be unattainable, for which there are now numerous claimants, and the number of these is rapidly increasing, like that of the colonels in the South after the war.

I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.

I've been extraordinarily successful for my age. I think for probably anyone's age, I'm very fortunate.

Last time I was in Canada Celine Dion had just given birth to identical twins. Which is quite an achievement given her age and face.

There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion and a cessation. That’s the end. That’s when the coffin is closed. You might be deteriorating physically in the long process of aging, but your personal process of daily discovery is ongoing. You continue to learn more and more about yourself every day.

In my age group I don't know a single woman who is as successful as I am. I am the total exception. You can be very proud of it. But you are also very isolated.

The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his name or trademark.

Happy he who like Ulysses has made a great journey.

Success is an act of exploration. That means the first thing you have to find is the unknown. Learning is searching; anything else is just waiting.

I want to show that you don’t have to be older to live your dreams; you can do it at any age

You can't keep wanting to be 20 years old. Everybody knows that, but what's in the next room?

I hope and assume that every good comedy writer, no matter the age, has a moment where they discover how great Cheers is.

As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.

I'm a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I discovered love.

This shows you are never too old to get surprised.

They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: "When I was a boy!" It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover.

There is an undeniable exhilaration in moment of even the smallest discovery

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

Kurt Godel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental - indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark which will remain visible far in space and time. ... The subject of logic has certainly completely changed its nature and possibilities with Godel's achievement.

It's gonna be one of the great achievements of this administration.

Winning and losing aren't all they're cracked up to be, but the trip to the destination is.