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Biography - Bertrand Russell:

British philosopher, logician and mathematician.
Born: 1872 - Died: 1970
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
United Kingdom

Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas: its aim is to approach truth by successive approximations.


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"Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas: its aim is to approach truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved."


Quote source: ABC of Relativity



Translation

Translation

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French
La science ne cherche pas à énoncer des vérités éternelles ou de dogmes immuables ; loin de prétendre que chaque étape est définitive et qu'elle a dit son dernier mot, elle cherche à cerner la vérité par approximations successives.

German
Es ist nicht das Ziel der Wissenschaft, unwandelbare Wahrheiten und ewige Dogmen aufzurichten: Ihr Ziel ist es, durch aufeinanderfolgende Näherungsschritte an die Wahrheit heranzukommen.




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Quotes for: truth


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Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.





The language of truth is simple.





Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.





In excessive altercation, truth is lost.











Quotes for: science


Quotes

Quotes about science:


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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.





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Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.





Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.





Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.











Quotes

Bertrand Russell also said...


Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.





To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.





One of the most difficult matters in all controversy is to distinguish disputes about words from disputes about facts.





Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.





I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong.





The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.












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