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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.
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