You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I began to see, again and again, stories that were first confusing and second where the emotional impact was muted because the… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing can happen.… — Anouk Aimee Copy Share Image
I think that the resistance against Darwin is not just the difficulty of seeing the power of a spectacularly beautiful explanation: it… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
Science needs the intuition and metaphorical power of the arts, and the arts need the fresh blood of science ... Interpretation is… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on.… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
If a director says he doesn't care how many people see his films at all, I simply don't believe him. Otherwise why… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Man is even as steel, the essence of which is hidden: through admonition and explanation, good counsel and education, that essence will… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
You can't be sure there's not a God, so why live your life in hatred or the denial of that. It's better… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
People think modeling's mindless, that you just stand there and pose, but it doesn't have to be that way. I like to… — Linda Evangelista Copy Share Image
A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
I had no words to give him. No explanation. I didn’t understand it, myself. It scared me, but then so do roller… — Megan Hart 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
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
You never told me all this before," I said, by way of explanation. "You all have divided up America into kingdoms, is… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
But some part of him realized, even as he fought to break free from Lupin, that Sirius had never kept him waiting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain't what you're not. So see what you got? — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
There's no obvious reason to assume that the very same rare properties that allow for our existence would also provide the best… — Guillermo Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Have you ever had something happen to you that there was simply no explanation for? That you can't chalk up to a… — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The reason people turn to supernatural explanations is that the mind abhors a vacuum of explanation. Because we do not yet have… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
