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
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.
Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.
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