It is absurd to say in respect of any intelligence that it is infallible, but if you ask me what I believe,… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. The superficial explanation is that a government resting upon popular suffrage cannot… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
You were Marlon Brando, I was Steve McQueen, you were K.Y. Jelly, I was Vaseline. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Evolution is a very, very important idea. It is the explanation for all of life - a stunningly simple, yet powerful explanation.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Dont waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. — Troublemaker Copy Share Image
...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have no decision-making role at all in my job description. I would have liked an explanation as to why I was… — Mookie Wilson Copy Share Image
As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation. — D. T. Max Copy Share Image
A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical… — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share Image
For me this book was a very practical explanation of one man's experience of Enlightened awareness in in the face of or… — Janwillem van de Wetering Copy Share Image
I should have thought of this years ago. But that was the problem with being sane. Sane people played by the rules.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
There was not a word of apology, not a word of explanation to the American people, ... The president's going to have… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
I should say that, in addition to my tree - love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Most people who've never experienced non-ordinary states of consciousness and only hear them described tend to try to describe them in terms… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know… — James P. Hogan Copy Share Image
Astonishingly, in spite of decades of research, there is no agreed theory of cancer, no explanation for why, inside almost all healthy… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Since the most important element of any concept is that its originating question be appropriately framed, any theory demanding an explanation for… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
Truth is truth, not the explanations of Truth. Truth is a living, moving process. Truth is constantly undulating and vibrating. You can… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
In such systems, there is unquestioning respect for authority. Faith trumps evidence. But if indeed this is broadly the explanation for how… — Robert May, Baron May of Oxford Copy Share Image
With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
