Why do any of us act the way we do? Is it our beliefs or our biology that shapes us? Lauren Grodstein… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The true God is not a form idealized; he/she/it is real and therefore, by definition, imperfect; only an abstraction can be free… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what! — Maxfield Parrish Copy Share Image
By the age of fifteen, I had convinced myself that nobody could give a reasonable explanation of what he meant by the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
We need to raise the level of our game in terms of explaining the planetary warming by infrared absorption of CO2 etc.… — Judith Curry Copy Share Image
In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
Stay close to those who sing, tell stories, and enjoy life, and whose eyes sparkle with happiness. Because happiness is contagious and… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life.... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
On the Cross the Jesus of the Four Gospels, who was God, cried out My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of the concepts… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
I open each class with an explanation of the singular importance of being a "dealmaker." The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple:… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I was still owed an explanation, I thought, but so what? What good was it going to do me? It wouldn't have… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Preaching for life changes requires far less information and more application. Less explanation and more inspiration. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Sickness is real. However, I've seen too many people suffering with sicknesses not of their own choosing to say glibly that all… — Daniel K Judd Copy Share Image
If I die before my cat, I want a little of my ashes put in his food so I can live inside… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
