It could be Fascist, religious or political - it's always the same model that operates in these circumstances, and it's that which… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking),… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A single kind of red cell is supposed to have an enormous number of different substances on it, and in the same… — Karl Landsteiner Copy Share Image
With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed. ("The Wendigo")” — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
Elvis was God-given, there's no other explanation. A Messiah comes around every few thousand years, and Elvis was it this time. — Little Richard Copy Share Image
Strings of coincidence can strengthen us in the determination to follow our deepest intuitions even when they run counter to conventional wisdom… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
Failing to induce adulation and submissiveness, the Angkar could only generate hatred. If concealment was the ultimate ploy for the leadership, it… — Pol Pot Copy Share Image
Science as we now understand the word is of later birth. If its germinal origin may be traced to the early period… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
The friends of Job appear on the scene as advisers and "consolers," offering Job the fruits of their moral scientia. But when… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Some who support [more] coercive strategies assume that children will run wild if they are not controlled. However, the children for whom… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Greenspan's eventual explanation for the growing gap between stock prices and actual productivity was that, fortuitously, the laws of nature had changed… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Anyone who appears to be triggered out of watchfulness and into action by your appearance must be explained. Anyone observing you carefully… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
“People who live with OCD drag a metal sea anchor around. Obsession is a break, a source of drag, not a badge… — David Adam Copy Share Image
It meant that Diana had not waited for any explanation, however halting and imperfect, but had condemned him unheard; and this showed… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
We all want explanations for why we behave as we do and for the ways the world around us functions. Even when… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking… — Alija Izetbegovic Copy Share Image
I kind of think that if you show conspiracy theorists a photo of the dead Bin Laden they will come up with… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
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