We inhabit, we are part of, a reality for which explanation is much too poor and small. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no… — Ronald Blythe 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
Sometimes we want things we were not meant to have. Because he loves us, the Father says no. Faith trusts that no.… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There's a difference between telling a story and not providing an explanation because you just don't do it well or pull it… — Brad Anderson Copy Share Image
For centuries, epilepsy was the exact expectation of someone being possessed by the Devil. There was no better explanation, and it allows… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Our mania for rational explanations obviously has its roots in our fear of metaphysics, for the two were always hostile brothers. Hence,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“One demonstration is equivalent to one hundred explanations.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held,… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes… — John Muir Copy Share Image
We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
[Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
My theory of self-made men is, then, simply this; that they are men of work. Whether or not such men have acquired… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there's a God, and we have all this evidence that there's evolution, but He created the world only 6,000 years ago… — David Javerbaum Copy Share Image
Introverts keep their best stuff inside—that is, until it is ready. And this drives extroverts crazy! The explanation for the introvert’s behavior—and… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Before our globe had become egg-shaped or round it was a long trail of cosmic dust or fire-mist, moving and writhing like… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
We prefer to find an explanation for why things are not perfect, and these rarely stand up to close scrutiny. — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
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