By clock on April 4, 2008. There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. - Oliver Goldsmith Tags Clock Quotes More like this I'm pretty sure that Marcus Tullius Cicero is the originator of this saying. It was also picked up and used to good effect by Descartes. Damn! Bob beat me to it. I was going to show my erudition unnecessarily! David Hull has a variant: There is nothing so absurd that some organism or other doesn't have it. Hmmmm, so it is one of those ageless truisms that lots of people can claim, eh?
I'm pretty sure that Marcus Tullius Cicero is the originator of this saying. It was also picked up and used to good effect by Descartes.
Damn! Bob beat me to it. I was going to show my erudition unnecessarily! David Hull has a variant: There is nothing so absurd that some organism or other doesn't have it.
I'm pretty sure that Marcus Tullius Cicero is the originator of this saying. It was also picked up and used to good effect by Descartes.
Damn! Bob beat me to it. I was going to show my erudition unnecessarily!
David Hull has a variant: There is nothing so absurd that some organism or other doesn't have it.
Hmmmm, so it is one of those ageless truisms that lots of people can claim, eh?