I could have just said I'm good at my job, but I didn't. Didn't want the police thinking I was holding out… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Work/Loaf Ratio”...I have spent fourteen years perfecting... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the “W/LR” save to say that… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real… — Rosalind Franklin Copy Share Image
Be a pro. • Act like a champion. • Respond to adversity; don’t react. • Be on time. Being late means either… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, "If you understand something you can explain it so that almost anyone can… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language… — Edward J. Fraughton Copy Share Image
Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation. — Robert Foster Bennett Copy Share Image
So, you could often say things are terrible and that accounts for what happened, or things are really bright, and that accounts… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
I receive your love and I give you mine. Not the love of a man for a woman, not the love of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If acorns start growing into theologians, or if women begin turning into pillars of salt, then we may wish to hypothesize about… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Every theory I've seen that contains an explanation of war fails. I think they fail for the same reason that explanations of… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Derangement is the only possible explanation for owning a cat, an animal whose preferred mode of communication is to sink its claws… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age--suppressed, I… — Mahlon Hoagland Copy Share Image
Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A foreign correspondent, after talking to me for a while, once said: "You don't seem smart enough to be so good at… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Along with my colleagues Mark Warner and Sheldon Whitehouse, I have been working to end the process of secret holds, which is… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
And I agreed, but still, she owed us an explanation. If she was up there, down there, out there, somewhere, maybe she… — John Green Copy Share Image
No, explanation is not needed – only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but… — Michel Chion Copy Share Image
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
