An elderly lady confronted Bertrand Russell at the end of his lecture on orbiting planets, saying,

"What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise".

Russell gave a superior smile before asking what the turtle was standing on.

"You're very clever young man, very clever," replied the old woman, "but it's turtles all the way down."

-- told by Stephen Hawking

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