I hold all knowledge that is concerned with things that actually exist…

Bertrand Russell
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I hold all knowledge that is concerned with things that actually exist - all that is commonly called Science - to be of very slight value compared to the knowledge which, like philosophy and mathematics, is concerned with ideal and eternal objects, and is freed from this miserable world which God has made. ✨ Bertrand Russell (2009). Autobiography, p.149, Routledge
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