Bertrand Russell Quote

The prudent man of science acquires a certain instinct as to the kind of uses which may be made of present scientific beliefs without incurring the danger of complete and utter refutation from the modifications likely to be introduced by subsequent discoveries.


Mysticism and Logic: And Other Essays, Chapter VI (p. 103), Longmans, Green & Co. 1919


The prudent man of science acquires a certain instinct as to the kind of uses which may be made of present scientific beliefs without incurring the...

The prudent man of science acquires a certain instinct as to the kind of uses which may be made of present scientific beliefs without incurring the...

The prudent man of science acquires a certain instinct as to the kind of uses which may be made of present scientific beliefs without incurring the...

The prudent man of science acquires a certain instinct as to the kind of uses which may be made of present scientific beliefs without incurring the...