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Originally Posted by tompe
Turtles is much older than Discworld. I saw it first in a Bertrand Russell book. One of the possible sourced from wikipedia:
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Well elephants is older than turtles (dating back several centuries). Man ... that sentence just sounds wrong .... "elephants is older than turtles"??
The original saying is from a very old Buddhist parable about faith, and why it is futile to argue a point of faith.
And, why would Bertrand Russell be lecturing on astronomy?? He wasn't an astronomer. He wasn't even a scientist. He was a philosopher ... at least he was the last time I read any of his work.