Nils Heribert-Nilsson famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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My attempts to demonstrate evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed.....It is not even possible to make a caricature of an evolution out of paleobiological facts...The idea of an evolution rests on pure belief.
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A close inspection discovers an empirical impossibility to be inherent in the idea of evolution.
-- Nils Heribert-Nilsson
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I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.
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I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.†But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,†according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.
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I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
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Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.
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I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.
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The very fact that the jaguar can become extinct while the Pekingese survives indicates to me that someone hasn't thought this thing through.
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While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
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It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.
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I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.