Student question: “What is difference between science and philosophy?“
Russell's answer: “I believe the only difference between science and philosophy is that science is what you more or less know and philosophy is what you do not know. Philosophy is that part of science which at present people choose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about. Therefore every advance in knowledge robs philosophy of some problems which formerly it had. And so if there is any truth it will follow that a number of problems which had belonged to philosophy will have ceased to belong to philosophy and will belong to science.“
— Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism (1975), Lecture 8. Excursus into Metaphysics: What There Is (1918), Q and A session, p. 123-24
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