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[[File:Bertrand Russell, by J. F. Horrabin.jpg|thumb|300px|''Bertrand Russell'', by James Francis Horrabin]]
{{quote|''"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."''|'''Bertrand Russell'''}}
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: "In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying."
* [[Raised by Grandparents]]: His father and mother died young, leaving him to be raised by his grandfather--the aforementioned [[Earl Russell]] (whom Bertrand remembered as "a kindly old man in a wheelchair")--and grandmother Frances, Countess Russell at the age of four. The Earl died two years later--leaving the title to Bertrand's older brother Frank--and his grandmother took charge of the boys. The Countess was substantially more conservative than his parents--but given that his parents were very radical for their time, this merely meant that the same dose of freethought would be allowed in secular affairs, while still being indoctrinated as Presbyterians.
* [[Understatement]]: And no small amount of ''Deadpan Snarker'', as well: in ''Principia Mathematica'' Russell and Alfred North Whitehead spent several hundred pages of proofs to derive "1 + 1 = 2" from even more primitive rules and assumptions. At which point they drily noted, "The above proposition is occasionally useful."
{{Nobel Prize in Literature}}
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