The scientific philosophy, therefore, which aims only at understanding the world and not directly at any other improvement of human life, cannot take account of ethical notions without being turned aside from that submission to fact which is the essence of the scientific temper.


Mysticism and Logic: And Other Essays, Chapter VI (p. 109), Longmans, Green & Co. 1919

Bertrand Russell Quotes

The scientific philosophy, therefore, which aims only at understanding the world and not directly at any other improvement of human life, cannot take ...

The scientific philosophy, therefore, which aims only at understanding the world and not directly at any other improvement of human life, cannot take ...

The scientific philosophy, therefore, which aims only at understanding the world and not directly at any other improvement of human life, cannot take ...

The scientific philosophy, therefore, which aims only at understanding the world and not directly at any other improvement of human life, cannot take ...