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Bertrand Russell used to employ the method of "evidence against interest"; in other words of deciding that a critique of capital punishment, say, carried … quotes/440

Unfortunately, so long as war continues, all scientific knowledge is double-edged. For example, Professor Fritz Haber, who has just died, invented a … quotes/128

The method of a hereditary leisure class without dutions was, however, extraordinarily wasteful. None of the members of the class had been taught to … quotes/109

Broadly speaking, it is held that getting money is good and spending money is bad. Seeing that they are two sides of one transaction, this is absurd; … quotes/108

First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; … quotes/107

Perhaps the greatest of all forces for uniformity in the modern world is the cinema, since its influence is not confined to America but penetrates to … quotes/106

The European traveller in America---at least if I may judge by myself---is struck by two peculiarities: first the extreme similarity of outlook in all … quotes/105

The Christians, retaining the Judaic belief in a special revelation, added to it the Roman desire for world-wide dominaion and the Greek taste for metaphysical … quotes/104