Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe. (Thomas Henry Huxley)

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

Thomas Henry Huxley

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