Many people have trouble sticking to their resolutions, and there is a simple scientific explanation for this. In 1987, a team of… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Real scientists are required to play by the rules without exception. Creationists follow the rules of science only so long as it… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
We all want explanations for why we behave as we do and for the ways the world around us functions. Even when… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
When you and I hurt deeply, what we really need is not an explanation from God but a revelation of God. We… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
Call saw that everyone was looking at him, the hands and cowboys and townspeople alike. The anger had drained out of him,… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
We need to raise the level of our game in terms of explaining the planetary warming by infrared absorption of CO2 etc.… — Judith Curry Copy Share Image
And this is why studying the history of psi is important. People have been reporting these phenomena for millennia and studying them… — Dean Radin Copy Share Image
There was no magic encounter for me with a whale in the ocean; no being zapped by a whale as I snorkelled… — Sue Arnold Copy Share Image
Some who support [more] coercive strategies assume that children will run wild if they are not controlled. However, the children for whom… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Reports to the Surgeon General represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The friends of Job appear on the scene as advisers and "consolers," offering Job the fruits of their moral scientia. But when… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
I have found on Alpha that those from an essentially enlightened background feel at home with the parts of the course which… — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
The explanations for the things we do in life are many and complex. Supposedly mature adults should live by logic, listen to… — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. You go strolling through the crowd like… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
I thought that I had found something new. But then I convinced myself that the Abbot Gregor Mendel in Brünn, had, during… — Carl Correns Copy Share Image
We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Even in chimps there is true altruistic behaviour; behaviour that doesn't fit into the sociobiological model that says you either help a… — Jane Goodall 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
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
“Neue Phaenomena zu erklären, dieses macht meine Sorgen aus, und wie froh ist der Forscher, wenn er das so fleissig Gesuche findet,… — Carl Wilhelm Scheele Copy Share Image
A cardinal rule of writing is never interrupt yourself to explain something. If you must bring up an obscure topic, drop informative… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible though very unlikely that our whole world is controlled… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own… — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
Anyone who appears to be triggered out of watchfulness and into action by your appearance must be explained. Anyone observing you carefully… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] will spend long periods of time explaining to people why he won't use it. At the end of the explanation,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I feel I owe you another explanation Harry," said Dumbledore hesitantly. "You may, perhaps, wondered why I never chose you as a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Psychologists usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. The first is social loafing: in a group, some individuals tend… — Susan Cain 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
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that… — Oscar Wilde 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
To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The present moment, though, is outside of time, it’s Eternity. In India they use the word “karma” for lack of any better… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Atheism is the default position in any scientific inquiry, just as a-quarkism or a-neutrinoism was. That is, any entity has to earn… — Tim Maudlin Copy Share Image
Feeling very happy - why? An explanation is needed. No, happiness needs no explanation, happiness is its own explanation. God is creating… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
![“Some who support [more] coercive strategies assume that children will run wild if they are not controlled. However, the children for whom this is true typically turn out to be those accustomed to being controlled— those who are not trusted, given explanations, encouraged to think for themselves…” quote by Alfie Kohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8de/alfie-kohn-7728_assuming_some-who-support-more-coercive-strategie_1697882.jpg)
![“The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain understanding of the people of the United States at the time of its adoption - a meaning to be found in the explanations of those who advocated…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/759/thomas-jefferson-43_adoption_the-constitution-on-which-our-union-rest_929558.jpg)
![“[Barack Obama] will spend long periods of time explaining to people why he won't use it. At the end of the explanation, nobody knows why he still won't use it because the explanation is no good. And I mean, honestly we have a president that in my opinion really doesn't know what he's doing.” quote by Donald Trump](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/eb3/donald-trump-18_barack_barack-obama-will-spend-long-periods-of_29283.jpg)
