I don't think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
Cinderella's glass shoe was the perfect size… so why did it slip off as she ran?- It must have been to attract… — Ai Yazawa Copy Share Image
In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Here is one spot where each may experience… — Louise Wilder Copy Share Image
Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational… — Vladimir Arnold Copy Share Image
The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
What could me more plausible than a line of reasoning which argues that the explanation of the origin of a system was… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Of course, there remains the question of why we should find mind-brain identities so persistently counter-intuitive, if they are true. But this… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
Very well." He sat cross-legged on the floor of the cage. "You haven't run off so you want to talk. I will… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love… — E. O. Wilson 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
But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Love happened. She would have never thought that it could happen so rapidly. Love was something you worked at, and she had… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
Learning to explain phenomena such that one continues to be fascinated by the failure of one's explanations creates a continuing cycle of… — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the art of explanation. If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity-- to pose their own problems,… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
“Every pedagogical situation can be thought of as a kind of triangle among three parties: the student, the teacher, and the world… — Aaron Hirsh Copy Share Image
I read the Bible when I was 12 while studying for my bar mitzvah. I was also reading a lot of Dilbert… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of unexplained phenomena that was first explained by spiritual, mystical forces, the track record is not… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining"… — Ludwig Wittgenstein 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
One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving. — David Perkins Copy Share Image
Love is a sensation caused by temptation when a guy sticks his location into a girl's destination to increase the population for… — A. J. McLean Copy Share Image
From the point of view of many scientists, gods represent an explanation for the unknown. Scientists are focused on trying to understand… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me… — Allan Sandage Copy Share Image
Getting stuck on the explanation is a little like being at the peak of a roller coaster and pausing, the scene to… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone… — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
God does not owe me an explanation for what He does in my life. And if I am looking for that to… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Every theory I've seen that contains an explanation of war fails. I think they fail for the same reason that explanations of… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read… — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
You can assume that if a writer's work has survived for centuries, there are reasons why this is so, explanations that have… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
And what of my extended family-birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The transcendent and the numinous can be accessible to the most materialistic of scientists, without positing the supernatural. At the same time,… — Norman Cota Copy Share Image
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Crocker's Rules didn't give you the right to say anything offensive, but other people could say potentially offensive things to you, and… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“If I die very young, hear this: I was never anything but a kid playing. I was a heathen like the sun… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
In my first career I had founded my own company, with a group of MIT professors, before coming to Harvard to finish… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Unless you had developed a certain independence of value, a certain independent system of value, a system of values that was independent… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
And I will add this point of merely personal experience of humanity: when men have a real explanation they explain it, eagerly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image