celestial teapot

noun

Russell's teapot.

Meanings

nouncelestial teapot (plural celestial teapots)

plural celestial teapots

  1. human sciencesRussell's teapot.

    Yet strictly we should all be teapot agnostics: we cannot prove, for sure, that there is no celestial teapot.

    2006 September 18, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 52

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