agnosticism: Quick Facts

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Portrait of English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, circa 1885, standing in formal attire and holding a closed book.

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Bronze statue of Maimonides, depicted with a beard and wearing a turban, shown from the chest up against a clear blue background.

Oval portrait painting of John Locke, wearing a long dark wig and formal 17th-century attire, with a white cravat, set against a dark background.

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Key People

Ingersoll, Robert G.

Robert G. Ingersoll

American politician

Huxley, Thomas Henry

Thomas Henry Huxley

British biologist