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A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces. — Anatole France
Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him. — Walter Lippmann
Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump. — Willard Van Orman Quine
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct… — John von Neumann
It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. — Jean Baudrillard
The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow! Grow!"… — Steven Pressfield
Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic… — Honore de Balzac
I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular… — Benoit Mandelbrot
The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain for nearly all of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.' — Charles M. Schulz
The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object-Man and… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Infinite trust is what you are. It describes everything in the reality where you can feel your whole being. In that line between here and… — Robert Young
Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events. — Jean Fernel
The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning until today, and… — Horace-Benedict de Saussure
Apple's Jony Ive describes his "fanatical" approach to design in new interview — Jonathan Ive
To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction one or more… — Karl Popper
Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design and build a… — Arthur Compton
William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of the universe, but… — Bertrand Russell
Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses… — Marc Maron
I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero. — Richard Attenborough

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