we do not increase the wisdom to go with it."

He was also intense and volatile, the latter characteristic being associated with his mother. The historian Owen Chadwick described him as "a rare personality, of exceptional sensitivity of mind, fears and anxieties, care and compassion, humour and anger."

Ryle was sometimes considered difficult to work with - he often worked in an office at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory to avoid disturbances from other members

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