A blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
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A definition of metaphysics attributed to Lord Balfour, as quoted in God in Our Work: Religious Addresses (1949) by Richard Stafford Cripps, p. 72Charles Darwin
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A mathematician is 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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