Bertrand Russell — "To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."

"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous tra…"

"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought."

"We owe to Christianity a certain respect for the individual...."

"The opinion that snow is white must be held to show a morbid taste for eccentricity…"

"In all affairs, it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."