Probably not, but he had an amazing ability to understand the future of the human race. One interesting thing I recently found out after reading a short bio on him was that he was born with a twin sister, who died after only 6 weeks. I guess that played a very large factor in his writing.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
