Bertrand Russell: "I Owe My Life To Smoking"

[pstlpkr]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80oLTiVW_lc&feature=player_embedded

 

[ohin3]

I think I posted that a while back...such a classic quote from a BRILLIANT man.

 

[admin]

That's a great video. I included it in Fred Brown's piece:
Bertrand Russell: Thinker, Mathematician, Philosopher, Prophet - Pipe Smoker

 

[pstlpkr]

Oh yeah, it's been around for a long time.

Came across it again yesterday, thought I'd post it up.

 

[jaybird]

His work on the informal fallacy of induction, following Hume, is good even if it contradicts his atheism. It is often sited by Presuppositionalists.

 

[hauntedmyst]

 

[judcole]

 

[mp31guitar]

I just happened to read about this yesterday in Rick Newcomb's book, In Search of Pipe Dreams.