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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. — Ansel Adams
The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly… — Douglas Adams
The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example. — Dave Barry
Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.' — Joey Adams
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. — Napoleon Bonaparte
They also explained how the sensors can monitor the levels of acetone on people's breath, and this can be used to tell people who suffer… — Anne Campbell
I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to… — Jimmy Carter
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. — Arthur Cayley
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by… — Charlie Chaplin
The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nothing is more clear than that Christ cannot be explained by any humanistic system. He does not fit into any theory of natural evolution, for… — Loraine Boettner
I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by… — Martin Chemnitz
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently,… — Emile Durkheim
Mixing with groups of people can be enjoyed, it is pleasing in a way that cannot be explained other than the temptation to become closer… — Raymond Burr
She is a 13-year-old girl who shares Amanda's name, and politely explained that she could not give up the website. Why? Because the younger Amanda… — Eva Longoria
God cannot be explained... God can only be lived. — Meher Baba
Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful… — Al Gore
They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon which can be… — John Herschel
In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence of… — E. O. Wilson

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