There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it but you can't prove t

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it but you can't prove that there aren't any so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

Author: Richard Dawkins

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