Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
Alternative explanations are always welcome in science, if they are better and explain more. Alternative explanations that explain nothing are not welcome...… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics,… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
The sole argument generally given to justify this picture of the world is that perturbative string theories have a massless spin two… — Peter Woit Copy Share Image
Excuses are the explanations we use for hanging on to behaviors we don't like about ourselves; they are self-defeating behaviors we don't… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
“An overly complex explanation began with an unsophisticated assumption.” — Rick Delmonico Copy Share Image
I am not an adult, that's my explanation of myself. Except when I am working on a set, I have all the… — Jean Arthur Copy Share Image
The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
To yearn for a single, and usually simple, explanation of the chaotic materials of the past, to search for a single thread… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of institutions in the economic world which depart from the simple price/market model which I worked on in… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not an act… — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
When confronted with a demand that the universe have a cause, infidels have usually pointed out that God was not much of… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Beyond all explanations which a good brain can give, why do we choose the worse and not the better, why hate rather… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Love is a sensation caused by temptation when a guy sticks his location into a girl's destination to increase the population for… — A. J. McLean Copy Share Image
I look at the most promising putative moral theories. I construct crucial thought experiments in areas where they give conflicting advice. I… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
I'm not an historian but I'll venture an opinion: Modern cosmology really began with Darwin and Wallace. Unlike anyone before them, they… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You can assume that if a writer's work has survived for centuries, there are reasons why this is so, explanations that have… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
