I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at t…

Richard Dawkins
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I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden ✨ Richard Dawkins (2008). The God Delusion, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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