"A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there."
— Charles Darwin

January 1, 1970

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A metaphysician is like a blind man in a dark room, looking for a black cat — which isn't there. — Variant published in Smiles and Chuckles (1952) by B. Hagspiel