Russell's teapot
Meaning
Proper Noun
- A china teapot which hypothetically orbits the Sun between Earth and Mars, which is too small to be detected by telescopes but cannot be proven not to exist.
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Origin
- From a teapot described in an article written in 1952 by Bertrand Russell, “Is There a God?”.
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