"What the philosophers and theologians require is a razor. The absolute badly needs a haircut; at present he is too much like Paederewski—he has more nimbus than is necessary more even that [sic] is decent. . . As for God, he should really have his beard trimmed . . ‘The Agnostic Razor’ would keep its edge indefinitely provided that it was regularly and properly stropped, the best materials for the strop being hard fact and experience."
Julian Huxley
"The Agnostic Razor" (unpublished essay, Julian Huxley Papers at Rice University), 1917
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