Nobel prize winner Bertrand Russell was one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century. Descended from a British prime minister Russell, who lived until the age of 98, while possessing a brilliant mind had, like many people of genius, a number of idiosyncrasies. What was one of the more unusual examples of these?
Married four times, his third wife, when she left to visit friends or relatives for a few days, left instructions in the kitchen by the stove telling Russell how to make a cup of tea. These included such elementary instructions as ‘fill the kettle with water, put it on the stove, turn the gas on. When the water boils pour this into the teapot, with tea in it.’
Source: Intellectuals by Paul Johnson
