There are three kinds of brains. The one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third understands… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I had no words to give him. No explanation. I didn’t understand it, myself. It scared me, but then so do roller… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Every one who understands the subject will agree that even the basis on which the scientific explanation of nature rests is intelligible… — Felix Klein 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
Hey, Ms. P," Tad called, "what's going on?" She let out a slow breath before she answered. "You won't believe this... Brian… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
The fact that traditionally 'female' jobs are paid less, that women end up working part-time because they're societally pressured into caring roles,… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
If you're denying God's power, that means you don't really believe they were miracles, and so then why believe they happened at… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
If a director says he doesn't care how many people see his films at all, I simply don't believe him. Otherwise why… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I think it laughable, frankly, that the physics community comes up with a theory for everything. There isn't one theory for everything.… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“your unlikely pilgrimage and, indeed, the courage of the woman who sat in silence and waited for you. They have caused me… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
His brows rose. “And how is it that you have come to be such an expert on scrapes and bruises?” “I’m a… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
If something comes up that is completely freaky, it's spiritual-looking to the scientist, the first explanation is not going to be that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people’s satisfaction but to call attention to… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing…It is only… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Occam's razor." "Yes. When formulating a theory, eliminate as few assumptions as possible. In other words, the simplest explanation is the most… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I said to the president's wife, Vietnam is the main reason we are having trouble with the youth of America. It is… — Eartha Kitt 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
In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
Science reveals where religion conceals. Where religion purports to explain, it actually resorts to tautology. To assert that "God did it" is… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
Freemasonry is a Jewish establishment, whose history, grades, official appointments, passwords, and explanations are Jewish from beginning to end — Isaac Mayer Wise Copy Share Image
So, in the physical world mankind are prone to seek an explanation of uncommon phenomena only, while the ordinary changes of nature,… — Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps Copy Share Image
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is… — Ernest Nagel Copy Share Image
People are upset. They know something is wrong. But they don't know what. The real explanation is too complicated. They won't sit… — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Our existence is beyond… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Changing ideas is a strain not to be lightly incurred, particularly when these ideas are intimately related to one's self-esteem ... men… — Robert E Lane Copy Share Image
Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequently. I don't feel… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Everything short of an explanation of the world as a whole is frustratingly partial. An explanation of the world must include an… — Susan Neiman 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
You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
