It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by… — Hamid Karzai Copy Share Image
A lot of the lyrics I write involve images that just swing the song in a way that feels really good to… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In the chapter on study we considered the importance of observing ourselves to see how often our speech is a frantic attempt… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We work for the public, and I believe that if a senator wants to block a piece of legislation or a nominee,… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
The hallmark of a deep explanation is that it answers more than you ask — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
I mean, it's unheard of for somebody to hit 70 home runs, so I'm like in awe of myself right now. — Mark McGwire Copy Share Image
To believe in explanations is good, because it means you may believe also that beneath the chaotic, mindless jumble of everything, beneath… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
Hillary's explanation of the Libyan action to Congress was so good, I wonder who explained it to her? — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
The scientific method is the ultimate elegant explanation. It is the ultimate foundation for anything worthy of the name "explanation". It makes… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Our alleged facts might be true in all kinds of ways without contradicting any truth already known. I will dwell now on… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of… — August Kekule Copy Share Image
...contemporary physicists come in two varieties. Type 1 physicists are bothered by EPR and Bell's Theorem. Type 2 (the majority) are not,… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
After thee accumulation of too much history we have lost our innocence, we cannot easily believe in any explanations. We describe rather… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
Underlying all your choices, particularly subject matter and the way you represent it, should be your own personal scruples, the standards and… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Just because science so far has failed to explain something, such as consciousness, to say it follows that the facile, pathetic explanations… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist --… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When I find too many puzzles about the way explanations are given about why there is inequality - why people who work… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
To develop an empiricist account of science is to depict it as involving a search for truth only about the empirical world,… — Bas van Fraassen Copy Share Image
