3 Bertrand Russell Quotes on Bias

Bertrand Russell quotes on bias

52. There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

163. In a man whose reasoning powers are good, fallacious arguments are evidence of bias.

195. I used to go to [Einstein's] house, once a week to discuss with him and Godel and Pauli. These discussions were in some ways disappointing, for, although all three of them were Jews and exiles and, in intention, cosmopolitans, I found that they all had German bias toward metaphysics... Godel turned out to be an unadulterated Platonist, and apparently believed that an eternal 'not' was laid up in heaven, where virtuous logicians might hope to meet it hereafter.