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We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself. -- Goldwin Smith
The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go. -- Ronald Frame
Just because we say networks are important doesn't mean that networks explain everything. We're just adding additional information. Networks don't work like a match - they work like a magnifying glass. -- Nicholas A. Christakis
For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs. -- Rupert Sheldrake
Maybe one day I'll make a record that's really mysterious and no one knows where it came from or what I wrote it about. But thus far, I've just wanted to explain everything properly. -- Ellie Goulding
Science fiction has traditionally been economically naive, with a strong libertarian streak, which I think is like a crude Leninism. That's attractive because it could be used to explain everything, and if only we lived by its tenets, everything would be perfect. -- Charles Stross
I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all. -- Stuart Appleby
Arguments that explain everything... explain nothing -- Christopher Hitchens
You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know. -- Robert Fulghum
If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all. -- Massimo Pigliucci
The task of the theologian is to explain everything through God, and to explain God as unexplainable. -- Karl Rahner
Of course we're all programmed genetically to some extent. But the "selfish gene" thesis doesn't explain everything. -- Jane Goodall
What's Cabin Nine?" Leo asked. "And I'm not a Vulcan!" "Come on, Mr. Spock, I'll explain everything. -- Rick Riordan
Caryl Churchill is a writer of some note, but in the sack, she makes me explain everything. -- Sam Shepard
It's among the intelligentsia that we often find the glib compulsion to explain everything and to understand nothing. -- Joost Meerloo
The Bible doesn't explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obediance. -- Elisabeth Elliot
If you want to come behind the Bible and explain everything scientifically, then you're denying God's power over miracles. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people. -- Selma Diamond
Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything. -- Egon Friedell
Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to explain everything. -- Sean Connery
I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately explain everything. -- Andrew Solomon
Life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain everything is just open, it is in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be courageous! -- Rajneesh
I want to explain everything to him, show him that it's really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is. -- Jonathan Tropper
The only other scenario that could explain everything, up to and including your own bizarre apperance, is a convoluted conspiracy theory involving the Russian Mafia and a crack team of plastic surgeons. -- Eoin Colfer
All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this. -- Sarah Dessen
Both Newton and Darwin were driven by the data and were forced to recognize that they couldn't explain everything. It may be a characteristic of great scientists to know what to accept and what to leave out. -- Lewis Wolpert
I think that anybody who thinks science is going to explain everything in biological systems, or in physical cosmology, et cetera, is actually mistaken, because I think within science - if correctly understood - those claims are not being made. -- George Coyne
Sometimes we just have to accept the fact we can't explain everything. Life happens, whether we want it to or not and we don't always have a reason why. Our job is to try and make some good come out of it. -- Melissa Pearl
Ideologies - isms which to the satisfaction of their adherents can explain everything and every occurence by deducing it from a single premise - are a very recent phenomenon ... Not before Hitler and Stalin were the great political potentialities of the ideologies discovered. -- Hannah Arendt
I wish I had time to explain everything I did. Almost everything was done with an eye on the GLBT movement...last week I got a phone call from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and the voice was young, my election gave one more young person, hope -- Harvey Milk
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window. -- Stephen King
People say that steadiness of mind is an end; no, it is a beginning. I am there; I can explain everything up to that point. Then I struggle to discover what comes after, so this steadiness is not an end, it is the beginning and the instrument. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
I'm a wise Latina woman. Whatever, man. Thank God I'm not in politics, because the fact that you have to explain everything - I'd kill myself. I can't take all those little things they dissect. I'm like, 'Oh my God, get a life.' I don't have time for this. -- Justina Machado
Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt. -- Marianne Moore
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. -- Arthur Cayley
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. -- Donald Knuth
What interests me about clocks is that everything is hand-made, and yet to the person looking at the clock, something magical is happening that cannot be explained unless you are the clockmaker. -- Brian Selznick
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 knowledge may explain those events quite easily. -- Harry Browne
I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration. -- Victor Garber
When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I think that this is what makes you believe that it is impeccable. -- Michel Hazanavicius
The frenzy of the little-girl culture is something very unique, and I can only say that because I was one. The obsession - I can't really explain it. Everything is heightened to the maximum. -- Nikki Reed
Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner. -- Matthew Perry
It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's day hadn't made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal. -- Stephen Hawking
Yogi Bear' changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full feature on me. 'Yogi Bear' - there's everything before 'Yogi Bear,' and there's everything after 'Yogi Bear.' Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ. -- T. J. Miller
I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways. -- Roland Emmerich
I really had a rough time in middle school. Middle school to me was the way most people explain high school. Then in high school I had a blast. I basically did everything that you would do in high school or in college, so it really wasn't a difficult thing to pull out. -- Hayden Panettiere
Claim everything. Explain nothing. Deny everything. -- Prescott Bush
To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything. -- Eugene Delacroix
Agree with everything, explain nothing, then do what is best for you. -- Sherry Argov
I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. -- Carl Jung
Where should be be if we set ourselves to deny everything we do not know how to explain? -- Francois Arago
Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God. -- Paulo Coelho
I think it's important to share emotion, feelings. Everything the words can't explain. I just want to convey what I'm feeling, thinking. -- Marilou
You can never say everything you want to say. I feel I had a fair opportunity to explain a lot of the questions. -- Jeffrey Skilling
Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. -Sara -- Lisa Kleypas
You cannot explain the whole world in one photograph. Photography pretends. You can see everything that's in front of the camera, but there's always something beside it. -- Thomas Ruff
I'm starting to swing the bat now like I know I can. You can't really explain it. I'm just seeing the ball good and everything is going my way. -- J. J. Hardy

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