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Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of skeptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake. If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.
«Есть ли Бог?», 1952
Аргумент «чайник Рассела»
Из первоисточников
Источник: Ричард Докинз, «Бог как иллюзия» — гл. 2.
Источник: Bertrand Russell, Is There a God? http://www.cfpf.org.uk/articles/religion/br/br_god.html

Случай из адвокатской практики Ф.Н. Плевако. Одна столбовая дворянка, будучи разорившейся, лишившейся мужа, застрелившегося сына, будучи лишенной своего поместья за долги, жила приживалкой у какой-то барыни, потом снимала комнатку и так как у неё не было чайника, чтобы вскипятить воду, она его украла на рынке. И её судил коронный суд (как дворянку). Женщину оправдали.
Открытие себя (1967)

Глава I: Тептёлкин
Проза, «Козлиная песнь» (1927)

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Источник: Лекции профессора Чайникова