Bertrand Russell Quote

Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.


The Scientific Outlook (1931)


Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract....

Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract....

Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract....

Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract....