A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

About Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and public intellectual. He had influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, and various areas of analytic philosophy.

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