Quote #208
To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the Axiom of choice, but for shoes the Axiom is not needed.
More from Bertrand Russell
- There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
- War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
- The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
- I am neither as drunk as a Lord, nor as sober as a Judge. I am more in the condition of a Lord Justice.
- The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
- When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.
- The saviors of the world, society's last hope.
- Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfort…