Bertrand Russell Quotes About Genius

• [Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labour of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspiration, Science, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays”, p.46, Booklassic

• To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error.

  Bertrand Russell

  Silly, Simple, Errors

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.66, Routledge

• All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspiration, Age, Genius

• In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it. ... In art nothing worth doing can be done without genius; in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Science, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays”, p.41, Booklassic

• The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.

  Bertrand Russell

  Genius, Bombs, Atomic Bomb

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