 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
While I was writing Principia Mathematica I felt justified in living on inherited money, though I did not feel justified in keeping an additional sum of capital that I inherited from my grandmother. I gave away this sum in its entirety, some to the University of Cambridge, some to Newnham College, and the rest to various educational objects.
Source: Bertrand Russell: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.2 chap. 1:The First War, 1968
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Note that Newnham College, University of Cambridge (founded 1871) is a women's dormitory and has an exchange with Ochanomizu University (founded 1874).