free thinker
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This anthology left me humbled — and determined to double down on my commitment as a writer, a free thinker, a humanist.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025
Written in 1779 by the German free thinker Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, it has been brought to the Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater at the D.C.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2022
In recent years, he has increasingly alienated himself from the astronomical community, painting himself as a brave free thinker challenging the close-minded dogmas of the broader scientific world.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 27, 2021
She’s a free thinker, un-beholden to special interests and bagel counter orthodoxy.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2018
Any man who lived in the eighteenth century was primâ facie a fool; if a free thinker, his case was all but hopeless; but if a French free thinker, it was desperate indeed.
From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir