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Bertrand Russell

Biography of Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russel is one of the greates western philosopher of the 20th century. He won the Nobel Prize in LIterature in 1950 for recognition of his work. He won the prize, accordning to Nobel Prize website, "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought". In his biography, he describes his ambition to "write one series of books on the philosophy of the sciences from pure mathematics to physiology, and another series of books on social questions. I hoped that the two series might ultimately meet in a synthesis at once scientific and practical".

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Awards for Bertrand Russell

1950: Nobel Prize in Literature

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Quotes by Bertrand Russell

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

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religion mathematics logic ethics epistemology philosophy of science philosophy of language logical atomism Russell's paradox theory of descriptions Russell's teapot. knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description