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You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for… — Barack Obama
It's easier to explain price once than to apologize for quality forever. — Zig Ziglar
We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now. It's like asking the tulip there to explain you. The… — John Templeton
Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by an… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. — M. King Hubbert
Magic is antiphysics, so it can't really exist. But is shares one thing with science. I can explain the principle behind a good science experiment… — Koji Nakanishi
A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself. — Bobby Ray Inman
You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success. — J. Richard Clarke
If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics. — Pierre Duhem
In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk... A theory established with the help of… — Jean-Baptiste Dumas
To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought, a pleasure that… — Carl Wilhelm Scheele
The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things… — Frank Watson Dyson
An intelligent patient, private or otherwise, to whom you have taken the trouble to explain the nature of the investigation, makes the best laboratory animal. — Fuller Albright
Since biological change occurs slowly and cultural changes occur in every generation, it is futile to try to explain the fleeting phenomena of culture by… — Robert Lowie
When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this… — Epictetus
To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind. — Jerome Drayton
If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It… — Paavo Nurmi
People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. — William Stafford
Heaven does nothing: its non-doing is its serenity. Earth does nothing: its non-doing is its rest. From the union of these two non-doings All actions… — Zhuangzi
The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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