Explains Quotes
227 quotes by 215 authors
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The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality is difficult to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the program much of…
— Harold S. Kushner
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Those who have chosen the path of least resistance in life, who cannot bear to bring themselves to make a stern value-judgment in criticism of…
— Kenny Smith
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Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living…
— Chris Bangle
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It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special…
— Ivan Illich
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Of all the documents that have come down from antiquity, Genesis three is the only one that explains how the world became sinful and evil
— Edward Joseph Young
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Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so…
— Dave Barry
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We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to synthesise them and…
— John Dewey
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Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all the facts since…
— Henri Poincare
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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
— James A. Michener
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Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in its…
— Louis Kronenberger
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Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic…
— Honore de Balzac
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It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or…
— Julian Huxley
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Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Many people perceive Christianity as something institutional - rather than as an encounter with Christ - which explains why they don't see it as a…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning until today, and…
— Horace-Benedict de Saussure
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To teach kids that creationism explains something about the world is no different than teaching them that the earth is flat.
— Alan Wolfe
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The assertion that 'culture' explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to capture men as…
— John Tooby
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The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.
— Beaumont Newhall
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