You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious pers…

Carl Sagan
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You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility. ✨ Carl Sagan (1997). Contact, p.169, Simon and Schuster
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