True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests. — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
To be sure, Darwin's theory of evolution is imperfect. However, the fact that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on… — Jon Jones 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
Our analysis shows that, for the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change.… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“The UFOs were explicable enough, just experimental aircrafts from the airport. Of course the government was not going to tell people what… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
To those who are willing to believe, no explanation of these events is necessary...and to those who are not willing to believe,… — Joan Anderson Copy Share Image
We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When, therefore, I had long considered this uncertainty of traditional mathematics, it began to weary me that no more definite explanation of… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Three explanations dominate speculation about what Obama is up to. The first is that he's trying to lay the groundwork for his… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion. — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success. — J. Richard Clarke Copy Share Image
The apostles suffered incredible persecution and died horrible deaths in the Christian cause. The only possible explanation for their zeal was that… — Fritz Ridenour Copy Share Image
We live in a diverse nation, but it isn't that diverse. If any one state showed results so dramatically different from the… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter? — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
We stand at the end of the Age of Reason. A new era of the magical explanation of the world is rising. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
