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We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be… — Leonard Ravenhill
An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in… — Charles Ives
Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding before us. Biologists… — Louis Agassiz
He didn't say nothing. He would just do things. He never said nothing or explained nothing. He just would do it and that was it.… — Pharoah Sanders
The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science — Sherwin B. Nuland
The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding, or slight discrepancy to defeat twenty pieces of solid evidence; accepts one witness… — Vincent Bugliosi
People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck, especially successful people. As they age and succeed, people feel their success was somehow… — Michael Lewis
I am a Christian, not because someone explained the nuts and bolts of Christianity, but because there were people willing to be nuts and bolts. — Rich Mullins
Biologists can be divided into two classes: experimentalists who observe things that cannot be explained, and theoreticians who explain things that cannot be observed. — Aharon Katzir
Market bashers ... might understand the claim that in some particular field, markets required no intervention--though they'd be skeptical--but the notion that, on general principle,… — Julian Sanchez
The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts… — Eric Allin Cornell
Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold… — Vincent Canby
No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real… — Pearl S. Buck
... I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and so refused flatly… — Leonhard Euler
It is not just that science and technology are possible means of great human satisfaction, as well as a matrix of complex dominations. Cyborg imagery… — Donna J. Haraway
The book known by the name of the Apocalypse, has seemed to be until now unintelligible, merely because people persisted to see in it a… — Charles-Francois Dupuis
I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldnt… — Mary Wesley
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away. — Harold Geneen
For me, the beginning of sharing my faith with people began by throwing out Christianity and embracing Christian spirituality, a nonpolitical mysterious system that can… — Donald Miller
So one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldnâ€™t become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered.… — Ransom Riggs

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