Explain Quotes
2114 quotes by 1636 authors
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Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves
— Werner Heisenberg
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In my heart and mind, I know I can hit anybody. I'm always relaxed. It's hard to explain. It's like playing with my kids. It…
— Albert Pujols
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In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often…
— Annette Funicello
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People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.
— Mort Sahl
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Well, as anyone who actually writes knows, if you sit down and are prepared, then the ideas come. There's a lot of different ways people…
— Nick Cave
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In every science, after having analysed the ideas, expressing the more complicated by means of the more simple, one finds a certain number that cannot…
— Giuseppe Peano
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How do you explain to somebody who doesn't understand that you don't build a library to read. A library is a resource. Something you go…
— Howard Jacobson
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The task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the brain marshall its millions of…
— Eric Kandel
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Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word,
— Mstislav Rostropovich
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One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain.
— Scarlett Thomas
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Trust is the foundation of real teamwork. And so the first dysfunction is a failure on the part of team members to understand and open…
— Patrick Lencioni
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How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without…
— Susanna Clarke
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It’s one thing to see yourself going across the ticker…But to take someone else down, that’s another. I really can’t even explain that pain.
— Brandon Marshall
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You can't get a leopard to change his spots. In fact, now that I come to think of it, you can't really get a leopard…
— Geoffrey K. Pullum
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My mother told me I said to her, at age three, 'I'm going to go to Italy and get my father in a tractor.' 'You've…
— Roger Waters
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I accept the responsibility but not the blame. Let me explain the difference. Those who are to blame lose their jobs. Those who are responsible…
— David Frye
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Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from what Newton’s mathematics…
— Brian Greene
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Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there…
— David Chalmers
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No attempt to explain the world, either scientifically or theologically, can be considered successful until it accounts for the paradoxical conjunction of the temporal and…
— Paul Davies
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Science may explain the world, but we still have to explain science. The laws which enable the universe to come into being spontaneously seem themselves…
— Paul Davies
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