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It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to… — G. H. Hardy
As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and… — Freeman Dyson
It's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and the spiritual side… — Hugh Hefner
I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm exploring. — Tim Hetherington
The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human. — Sam Francis
God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over… — Robert McKee
Biologists can be divided into two classes: experimentalists who observe things that cannot be explained, and theoreticians who explain things that cannot be observed. — Aharon Katzir
Our daily life is mostly, made of cases in which we lose money and/or time and/or energy and/or appetite, cheerfulness and good health because of… — Carlo M. Cipolla
Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green. — Cathleen Falsani
The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites, — Eli Siegel
The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to antiquarians and biologists,… — Odell Shepard
I moved my business to Mobile Insurance because they simply understand my business better than any other insurance agency. My prior agent didn't really understand… — Jeff Foote
I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a… — Stuart Appleby
Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had… — Barry Sonnenfeld
Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate… — Patrick MacGill
My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention.... — Ellen Langer
It's no use practicing too much. First you have to find out how to do it best. You have to be able to invent ways… — Nathan Milstein
The mathematical question is "Why?" It's always why. And the only way we know how to answer such questions is to come up, from scratch,… — Paul Lockhart
Transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it. — Sophia Loren
People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or… — David McCullough

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