It is absurd to say in respect of any intelligence that it is infallible, but if you ask me what I believe,… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
We live in a diverse nation, but it isn't that diverse. If any one state showed results so dramatically different from the… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
“Do you think things always have an explanation?” “Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I raise my hand; I take a book from the other side of this desk; I hear the boys playing ball outside… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write with a particular person in mind. I think it's fair to say that I write for a perceptive reader.… — James Salter Copy Share Image
It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
'Endgame' resists narrative and even thematic explanation. How you play it has to reflect this. If you decide something too much in… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Lichtenberg ... held something of the following kind: one should neither affirm the existence of God nor deny it. ... It is… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Directors like Satyajit Ray, Rossellini, Bresson, Buñuel, Forman, Scorsese, and Spike Lee have used non-professional actors precisely in order that the people… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes.… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Tony Awards boost Broadway attendance and sell the shows on the road. They're the sugar to swat the fly. If you needed… — John Lahr 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
My first reaction in pastoral care is not to explain. And again, I don't think the primary purpose of the Bible is… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
It continues to defy explanation why liberals who theoretically love liberty, equality, tolerance and moderation, should find so much to despise in… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
“Whether we listen to a sonata of Beethoven’s, watch highlight reels of Michael Jordan, or learn a law of Newton’s, we view… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
We have a media that presents every politician as being as bad as the next. There is no distinguishing between one good… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
God doesn't owe us an explanation for everything and actually what I've found is that explanations don't comfort. What comforts is the… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at… — Norman Macbeth 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
“Coach told me once, when I was too busy screwing around to pay attention that the only way he could get through… — Melyssa Winchester Copy Share Image
“Life can take you up and put you down at any time but just remember you don't owe anyone an explanation. Just… — Hopal Green Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't know - it's a bit of a mystery of how things come about when they do. I don't have a… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
It appears, from all that precedes, reasonably certain that if there be any relative motion between the earth and the luminiferous ether,… — Albert A. Michelson Copy Share Image
More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any 'scientific' explanation. . .I am… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Copy Share Image
“Prediction and explanation are exactly symmetrical. Explanations are, in effect, predictions about what has happened; predictions are explanations about what's going to… — John Rogers Searle Copy Share Image
Science needs the intuition and metaphorical power of the arts, and the arts need the fresh blood of science ... Interpretation is… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics,… — John Lennox 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
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
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
It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
So Occam's razor - Occam says you should choose the explanation that is most simple and straightforward - leads me more to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Failure to reach that bar is not something you can easily explain away. When it comes to other people, you can always… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it.… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
