Barely Nonsense

The phrase "it is not even wrong" is attributed to the theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, who supposedly said it in response to a particularly faulty paper. The point being that it was so bad it was not worth criticizing. Pauli was known for his dismissive zingers and was not shy about even telling friends that their reasoning was flawed. He allegedly once told a friend, "What you said was so confused that one could not tell whether it was nonsense or not."