Things happen, people change,' is what Amanda said. For her that covered it. You wanted an explanation, and ending that would assign… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If someone does a study which, for statistical reasons, I think is hopelessly underpowered or nonidentified, my best and most useful advice… — Andrew Gelman Copy Share Image
I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.... Usually one's cooking is better… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The trouble with being a secular humanist is that we don't have a congregation. We don't meet so it's a very flimsy… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl. — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in the words or the meaning of the words. I'm interested in disappearing in it completely, to not be… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“There are progressions in which the last step is sui generis - incommensurable with the others - and in which to go… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of therules… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
You're English," he said. "And I will therefore make certain allowances for you. I realize you don't understand you shouldn't argue with… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
In Canada, when we speak of water, we're speaking of ourselves. Canadians are known to be unextravagant, and one explanation of this… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Where two factions see vividly each its own aspect, and contrive their own explanations of what they see, it is almost impossible… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Traditional murder mysteries are interesting because they're ostensibly about a horrible thing - murder - but underneath that, they're about restoring order… — Malinda Lo Copy Share Image
We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
If you have evidence that C1 is a cause of E, and no evidence as to whether C2 is also a cause… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Think about it: you've already related it down to something that somebody else can understand. If art relates to something - it's… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
