Bertrand Russell Quote

The scientific spirit is not an affair of quotation, of externally acquired information, anymore than manners are an affair of the etiquette-book.


Mysticism and Logic: And Other Essays, Chapter II (pp. 43-44), Longmans, Green & Co. 1919


The scientific spirit is not an affair of quotation, of externally acquired information, anymore than manners are an affair of the etiquette-book.

The scientific spirit is not an affair of quotation, of externally acquired information, anymore than manners are an affair of the etiquette-book.

The scientific spirit is not an affair of quotation, of externally acquired information, anymore than manners are an affair of the etiquette-book.

The scientific spirit is not an affair of quotation, of externally acquired information, anymore than manners are an affair of the etiquette-book.