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They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered… — Bennett Cerf
Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in… — Marshall McLuhan
Some psychological and sociological conditioning occurs in every man's life and this affects the decisions he makes. But we must resist the modern concept that… — Francis Schaeffer
The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together… — Olympia Brown
Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it. — Chaim Weizmann
I've seen the odd tarot reader and had my palm read in various countries and explained to me in many strains of broken English. Did… — Simon Baker
You know, I used to think I was a foodie, and then my wife went to culinary school and basically explained to me that I… — Ty Burrell
De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at the end of… — W. W. Rouse Ball
We can distinguish three groups of scientific men. In the first and very small group we have the men who discover fundamental relations. Among these… — Wilder Dwight Bancroft
Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Remarking on the complexity… — Alfonso X of Castile
Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and… — Orlando Jones
I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or… — Rachel Kushner
Could it ever be explained, how matter becomes conscious? — Ian Mcewan
Absurd, irreducible; nothing â€” not even a profound and secret delirium of nature â€” could explain it. Obviously I did not know everything, I had… — Jean-Paul Sartre
The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended. — Theodore Dreiser
Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history. — John Shelby Spong
One kid said to me, he said, Mr. Lloyd, we really owe you. And I explained to him, man, you owe me absolutely nothing. I… — Earl Lloyd
I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business… — Jane Goodall
The conservative media game was neatly summarized by Matt Labash, a former senior writer for The Weekly Standard, in a 2003 interview on the website… — Matt Labash
I was researching a different World War II story when I came across an article in the 'Chicago Tribune' from June 1945 that knocked me… — Mitchell Zuckoff

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