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Letter "N" » nonsense
«Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
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About:
Creativity,
Criticism,
Evolution
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Keywords:
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creationist,
creationists,
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evolution,
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subject,
tested,
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«A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men»
«What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we cant decipher. What we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables. There is only the inevitable.»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
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Journalist,
Novelist,
Satirist)
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Keywords:
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Chaos,
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free will,
gibberish,
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nonsense,
patterned,
patterns,
random,
recognized,
The Cant,
variables
«Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense»
«Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a finite or an infinite number»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
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Keywords:
debate,
discussing,
eighteen,
finite,
Finite number,
infinite number,
nonsense,
pin,
theologian,
theologians,
The Standard
«Buttercup: That's the fire swamp! We'll never survive Wesley: Nonsense! You're only saying that because no one ever has.»
Author: The Princess Bride
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Keywords:
buttercup,
Buttercups,
fire,
nonsense,
saying,
survive,
swamp,
swamps,
the fire,
The Swamp,
Wesley
«He who talks incessantly, talks nonsense»
«Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!»
«Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
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Critic,
Novelist)
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About:
Facts
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Keywords:
diabolism,
dummies,
dummy,
elsewhere,
indulge,
knee,
nonsense,
sheer,
utter,
ventriloquist,
ventriloquists
«Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.»