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Quotes from An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth — Bertrand Russell

1872–1970

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The net result is to substitute articulate hesitation for inarticulate certainty.

An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth (1940)

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth (1940)

Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.

An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth (1940)

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