You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!Carl Sagan
The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that's all it is, then we've gotta as: how many nuclear weapons do you need to do that?Carl Sagan
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.Bertrand Russell
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.Bertrand Russell
Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.Bertrand Russell
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.Bertrand Russell
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.Bertrand Russell
