Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest]. — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
The publisher Jeff Johnson, who has offered not a word of explanation to me, has privately told people that he hated every… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
Explanations don't comfort. You won't feel better if you know why. It won't hurt any less. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation (particularly… — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, religions have become a part of the problem instead of part of the solution. We have fought our wars in the… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith. — Vaclav Hlavaty Copy Share Image
We desire peace. However, if imperialism insists on fighting a war, we will have no alternative but to take the firm resolution… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The fact that these scientific theories have a fine track record of successful prediction and explanation speaks for itself. (Which is not… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its… — William Beveridge 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 isn't the sort of argument Pointsman relishes either. But he glances sharply at this young anarchist in his red scarf. "Pavlov… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
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
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit. — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you. — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of… — David Stove Copy Share Image
It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I hate when there's a deleted scene on a DVD with no explanation, or you have to go out of your way… — Peyton Reed Copy Share Image
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended… — Bruce Alberts Copy Share Image
