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People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it. — Vaclav Havel
We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God… — Paul Davies
The inexplicable happens all the time. It makes more sense to simply accept things we observe but cannot understand. It is really more scientific to… — Bernie Siegel
I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and… — Aldous Huxley
This superficial blurring has something to do with the incapacity I have just mentioned. I can make no statement about reality clearer than my own… — Gerhard Richter
But I would like to reach the point where I could cut up an illustrated magazine at random and see to it that the parts… — Gerhard Richter
When people ask the Dalai Lama, "Is Buddhism a religion?" he answers, "Yes, it is." Then they ask, "What kind of religion is it?" He… — Sylvia Boorstein
In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason Ã¡ priori… — Charles Lyell
A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away… — Edwin Land
You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way. — Virgil Thomson
Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell… — Jonathan Sacks
I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because… — Yehuda Amichai
What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who… — Malcolm Lowry
You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain. — Laurence Fishburne
Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe,… — Michel Foucault
As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to be scared when there is… — Dylan McDermott
The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other… — Hakeem Olajuwon
Don't stigmatize in a rush to explain inexplicable evil. — Ron Fournier
I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like… — Jim Courier
Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But… — Donny Osmond

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