I recall the story of the philosopher and the theologian... The two were engaged in disputation and the theologian used the old quip about a philosopher resembling a blind man, in a dark room, looking for a black cat which wasn't there. That may be, said the philosopher, but a theologian would have found it.

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Julian Huxley was a 19th-century English biologist and philosopher. Sir Julian Sorell Huxley was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth-century modern synthesis. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Humor — Witty observations and humorous takes on everyday life
  • Philosophy — Deep thoughts on existence, knowledge, and the nature of reality

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