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Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and social critic. Born on May 18, 1872, in Trelleck, Monmouthshire, Wales, he became a leading figure in the analytic movement in Anglo-American philosophy. Russell co-authored "Principia Mathematica" with Alfred North Whitehead, which aimed to ground mathematics in logic. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950 for his significant writings that championed humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought. Russell was also an outspoken advocate for social reform, pacifism, and anti-imperialism. He passed away on February 2, 1970, in Penrhyndeudraeth, Merioneth, Wales.
If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument. It is exactly of the same nature as the Hindu's view, that the world rested upon an elephant and the elephant rested upon a tortoise; and when they said, "How about the tortoise?" the Indian said, "Suppose we change the subject." The argument is really no better than that.
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