We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. We are trying to understand how we have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
I was lucky to wander into evolutionary theory, one of the most exciting and important of all scientific fields. I had never… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Michael Moore: a man who never without an excuse for keeping murdering tyrants in power. But now he's supporting the man who… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
I don't know - it's a bit of a mystery of how things come about when they do. I don't have a… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
I certainly enjoy going on stage and lecturing and talking to Congress. That's a personality explanation. And given government proposals, I thought… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
It turns out, that men, when they're taking care of their business, they're not fully attending to the task at hand, but,… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day--without relief or explanation. — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
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
Baby, your nothing but too much trouble. Gotta bury this love and bury the shovel. — Clay Walker Copy Share Image
“If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question. — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Whereas many philosophers and theologians appear to possess an emotional attachment to their theories and ideas........scientists feel no qualms about suggesting different… — Frank J. Tipler Copy Share Image
Anything that we can destroy but are unable to make is, in a sense sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How could you ask me to believe in God when there's absolutely no evidence that I can see? I do believe in… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I have shown that those who deplore Artificial Intelligence are also those who deplore the evolutionary accounts of human mentality: if human… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. — Red Auerbach Copy Share Image
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
