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Being too smart will bring man's own destruction?

 
 
Reply Mon 24 Oct, 2011 07:05 pm

Has Bertrand Russell said something like this?

Being too smart will bring man's own destruction.

The attempts of Google search have failed me.

In Wikipedia, there is:

Russell determined man to be "the product of causes . . . 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 labors of the ages, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, that the whole temple of man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins -- all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. . . ."[60]

It is different to what I'm looking for.
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Reply Tue 25 Oct, 2011 06:56 pm
@oristarA,
Mod, please delete this thread.
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