A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
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When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room — looking for a black hat — which isn't there.
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Lord Bowen, as quoted in "Pie Powder", Being Dust from the Law Courts, Collected and Recollected on the Western Circuit, by a Circuit Tramp (1911) by John Alderson Foote; this seems to be the earliest account of any similar expression. It is mentioned by the author that this expression has become misquoted as a "black cat" rather than "black hat."Charles Darwin
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A blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
Charles Darwin
A metaphysician is like a blind man in a dark room, looking for a black cat — which isn't there.
Charles Darwin
A blind man in a dark room seeking for a black cat — which is not there.
Charles Darwin
A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
Charles Darwin
With his obscure and uncertain speculations as to the intimate nature and causes of things, the philosopher is likened to a 'blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that is not there.'
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