‘Mortals and Others is a stimulating volume; clever, amusing, vexatious, and wholly readable. It would make an excellent bedside book but for the fact that Russell is never soporific.’

‘Although they are short, almost fragmentary, essays each is complete in itself and has the incomparable lucidity and wit that was Russell….. Many a verbose scientist might take a lesson from these short but pithy essays. Here is Russell at his liveliest.’