But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
I hate getting off the elevator on the wrong floor? Anyone ever do that... and then you have to turn around and… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of explanation in science: explanations which throw a light upon, or give a hint at a matter; explanations… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Physicists have come up with other explanations. One is to say that these six constants are not free to vary. Some unified… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think from my point of view - I won't say it doesn't matter whether [Darwinian explanations] are right or wrong, it's… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Speculation has been singularly fruitful as to what these markings on our next to nearest neighbor in space may mean. Each astronomer… — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
By an incredible coincidence, Gamow and Edward Condon, who had discovered simultaneously and independently the explanation of radioactivity (one in Russia, the… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
One can discern a few very general myths that facilitate the birth of further myths: that everything is possible; that whatever we… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
Julian Jaynes's theories for the nature of self-awareness, introspection, and consciousness have replaced the assumption of their almost ethereal uniqueness with explanations… — Michael Persinger Copy Share Image
the explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes… — Eleanor Rathbone Copy Share Image
“Coach told me once, when I was too busy screwing around to pay attention that the only way he could get through… — Melyssa Winchester Copy Share Image
If someone's lying to us, then it's rare that we know that they're lying to us. It's only in bad films that… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I read somewhere, one, that crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Man, by his very nature, tends to give himself an explanation of the world into which he is born. And this is… — Elsa Morante Copy Share Image
[On Archimedes mathematical results:] It is not possible to find in all geometry more difficult and intricate questions, or more simple and… — Proclus Copy Share Image
God expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I got a plan to get out of here, I've been working at a convenient store. — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image