 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
Wyatt: "How would you summarize the value of philosophy in the present world and in the years to come?"
Russell: "I think it's very important in the present world. First, because, as I say, it keeps you realizing that there are very big and very important questions that science, at any rate at present, can't deal with and that a scientific attitude by itself is not adequate. And the second thing it does is to make people a little more modest intellectually and aware that a great many things which have been thought certain turned out to be untrue, and that there's no short cut to knowledge. ..."
Source: Bertrand Rusell Speaks His Mind, 1960, interview 01
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