Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent and advanced mathematicians and physicists.

I read the 'Old Testament' all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read 'The Origin Of Species', hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

There are no inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocassionally, however, there are alternate pasts.

The kind of accidents you prefer to call...accidents.

He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.

Occasionally he would very nearly swear.

The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try to work how who was to blame.