United Kingdom, Writer May 18, 1872 – February, 2, 1970.
Bertrand Arthur William Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate.
Also known as Historian, Philosopher, Political Activist, Mathematician
Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.
An irrational fear should never be simply let alone, but should be gradually overcome by familiarity with its fainter forms.
Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians.
Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.
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