“A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.”

— Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia

Poor Relations.
Last Essays of Elia (1833)

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Bradley Denton (1958) American science fiction author

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“Shannon's most radical insight was that meaning was irrelevant.”

William Poundstone (1955) American writer

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“Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 78

“Serialists fall into difﬁculties if they fail to distinguish the wood from the trees and consequently try to assimilate masses of sparsely related irrelevant information”

Gordon Pask (1928–1996) British psychologist

Source: Learning Strategies and Individual Competence (1972), p. 276.

“As for catching Osama, it's irrelevant. Things are going swimmingly in Afghanistan.”

Ann Coulter (1961) author, political commentator

Responding to assertions about problems with Osama bin Laden and Afghanistan on Hannity & Colmes (24 August 2006) - video http://movies.crooksandliars.com/H-C-Coulter-crie.mov <br class="br">2006

“It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.”

Charles Dickens book Bleak House

Source: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 28

“It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.”

Banana Yoshimoto book Kitchen

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“Nature’s law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.”

Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician

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“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature… and the thing which pleases us.”

Blaise Pascal Pensées

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“The thing about herbs is that there is nothing supernatural or implausible about the fact that any particular herb can have a medicinal effect. But the truth of the matter is that herbs are drugs. There's nothing magical about them. The fact that they are "natural" is irrelevant — it's meaningless. They are drugs. They are drugs that have not been purified, identified, … and quantified. … Probably for most plants … there are hundreds of chemicals in there with varying degrees of potency.”

Steven Novella (1964) American neurologist, skepticist

SGU, Podcast #78 – January 15th, 2007 http://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcast/sgu/78 <br class="br">The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, Podcast, 2000s

“A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.”

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