Every one who understands the subject will agree that even the basis on which the scientific explanation of nature rests is intelligible… — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
People always want an explanation about everything and I cannot give it to them. Because I don't know myself. 'Why did you… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good. — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
What we call creation science makes no reference to the Bible. It says there are two possible explanations for the origin of… — Duane Gish Copy Share Image
Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Crocker's Rules didn't give you the right to say anything offensive, but other people could say potentially offensive things to you, and… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
I think the Russians have played now for some time the role of providing cover for Bashar al-Assad's behavior. The alternative explanation… — Rex W. Tillerson Copy Share Image
Photography is a craft. Anyone can learn a craft with normal intelligence and application. To take it beyond the craft is something… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
The fact that we have been able to develop a successful science, which issues in ever more accurate predictions and broader explanations,… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
It's hard to believe that you're really here, so I just pretend that you're not here. — Edie Brickell Copy Share Image
Are cans constitutionally iffy? Whenever, that is, we say that we can do something, or could do something, or could have done… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
A certain kind of methodologically-minded philosopher of science is quick to read off metaphysical conclusions from features of scientific practice. Chemists don't… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those… — Sophus Lie Copy Share Image
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One could dismiss the zombie trend as merely feeding a mass public that craves the strange and bizarre. Such an explanation would… — Daniel Drezner Copy Share Image
The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
