"He was the wealthiest of all scholars (savants) and probably also the most scholarly of all the wealthy."
— Henry Cavendish

January 1, 1970

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More succinctly, "wisest of the rich and the richest of the wise", as quoted in Jungnickel, Christa, and Russell McCormmach. 1999. Cavendish: The Experimental Life. Rev. ed. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press.