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Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the world of the… — John Archibald Wheeler
Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it… — Saint Augustine
The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words. — Elliott Erwitt
If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance! — Isadora Duncan
It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things… — Zora Neale Hurston
I'm so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn't understand, she had to explain: 'That's like three… — Brooke Shields
But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without… — William Carlos Williams
Not material or economic conditions in the ordinary sense, but perverse religious ideas explain the suspension of civilization in Europe from the 5th to the… — Joseph McCabe
Christians have always tended to transform the Christian Revelation into a Christian religion. Christianity is said to be a religion like any other or, conversely,… — Jacques Ellul
If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, how… — George MacDonald
Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we… — Gore Vidal
God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. — Richard P. Feynman
The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this: our hypotheses ought to foretell… — William Whewell
You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later… — Harry Browne
Vision, I say, is related to light itself. But of this sensation and the things pertaining to it, I pretend to understand but little; and… — Galileo Galilei
Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you. — dream hampton
The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events. — Georges Lefebvre
"Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events. They… — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
What, indeed, is an atheist? He is one who destroys delusions which are harmful to humanity in order to lead men back to nature, to… — Baron d'Holbach
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl. — Nellie L. McClung

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