3 Bertrand Russell Quotes on Methodology

Bertrand Russell quotes on methodology

77. I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

87. In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.

99. What is wanted is not the will-to-believe, but the wish to find out, which is its exact opposite.