People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination. — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
I think that's the mother and father of all cop-outs. It's an honest scientific quest to discover where this apparent improbability comes… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“So perhaps the very idea of explanation is an error of anthropomorphism when it is applied to things that do not involve… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted. — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock. — Anaxagoras Copy Share Image
Yesterday, today was tomorrow. And tomorrow, today will be yesterday. — George Harrison Copy Share Image
[L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“I love it," I say. "So I learned it." It's an explanation that leaves a lot out. But I learned a long… — Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter Copy Share Image
Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence. — B. B. King Copy Share Image
I should’ve been furious, but for some reason I wasn’t. Maybe because I knew he was telling the truth. Maybe because Voron… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take. — Robert Zoellick Copy Share Image
I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Regardless of the extent to which the media promote "politically correct," but scientifically wrong, resolutions from professional societies such as the American… — J. Philippe Rushton Copy Share Image
For Americans the contradiction between national ideal and social fact required explanation and correction. Ultimately this contradiction did not lead to the… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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