The trouble with us today, there are too many of us who put question marks instead of periods after what the Lord… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take… — Nelson Goodman Copy Share Image
Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the art of explanation. If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity-- to pose their own problems,… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or… — George Julius Poulett Scrope Copy Share Image
“Do not give explanation to anyone, everyone understands only what they want to understand.” — Nitin Namdeo Copy Share Image
Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes.… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell… — Julia Child 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
I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they did. Writing… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones. — William of Ockham Copy Share Image
Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a… — Russell Jacoby Copy Share Image
We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the loneliness is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What the articles which have been written about The First Man propose is humility. The acceptance of these contradictions. Seeking an explanation… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Our daily life is mostly, made of cases in which we lose money and/or time and/or energy and/or appetite, cheerfulness and good… — Carlo M. Cipolla Copy Share Image
