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Quotes from An Outline of Philosophy Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics — Bertrand Russell

1872–1970

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Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little: it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.

An Outline of Philosophy Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics (1927)

It must not be supposed that the subjective elements are any less 'real' than the objective elements; they are only less important... because they do not point to anything beyond ourselves...

An Outline of Philosophy Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics (1927)

The camera is as subjective as we are.

An Outline of Philosophy Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics (1927)

The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have, for doing the opposite.

An Outline of Philosophy Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics (1927)

Our words tend to conceal what is private and particular in our impressions, and to make us believe that different people live in a common world to a greater extent than is in fact the case.

An Outline of Philosophy Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics (1927)

Modern physics... reduces matter to a set of events which proceed outward from a centre. If there is something further in the centre itself, we cannot know about it, and it is irrelevant to physics.

An Outline of Philosophy Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics (1927)

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