Like every big organisation these days, the BBC is obsessed with the wellbeing of those who set foot on its premises. Studios… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
[Miranda Hentoff] was teaching once at Lincoln Center, and the hall was full of other professionals - musicians, professors, teachers. And she… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me. — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
I've already written a section in the annual report for next year explaining why I think in one case that the figures… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Readers must be given room to bring their own emotions to a piece so crammed with emotional content; the writer must tenaciously… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I'll be explaining that Britain will be leaving the European Union, but I want that process to be as constructive as possible.… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
Dave and Tate were dressed with equal heinousness. More black leather, chains, and whips. Either Don’s staff truly had costumes for all… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
I wrote a letter to Harvard, explaining that I was having difficulty deciding between it and the University of Pennsylvania. Could I… — J. Michael Bishop Copy Share Image
A quote that I like very much comes close to explaining my attitude about taking photographs. ‘Chinese poetry rarely trespasses beyond the… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
Resilience, timing, adaptation - these are the three pillars upon which the emergent properties of interacting systems rest. When the systems are… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining. — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn't be any conflict. — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant. — Ben Stein Copy Share Image