Explicitly Describe Quotes

#1. Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different from and superior to all human beliefs that are not scientific statements
and this is untrue.

Richard Rhodes

#2. I knew what I took upon myself and I was prepared to lose my life by so doing.

Hans Scholl

#3. At the highest level the first two yards are in your head.

Bob Paisley

#4. The really desolate areas can get pretty crowded, of course, sometimes, so it's good to get there early, get as much wandering as you can in before noon.

David Foster Wallace

#5. I feel like I've joined an enormous club, something like the Veterans of Foreign Wars. We are weary with battle fatigue and sometimes even gripped by nostalgia for the good old, bad old days, but our numbers are large.

Theo Pauline Nestor

#6. Just because you are getting younger doesn't mean you are getting better

Jon Gruden

#7. A civilization's memory resides in the continuity of its institutions. The revolution that interrupts a civilization's memory, by destroying those institutions, does not relieve society of a bothersome caparison that is paralyzing it, but merely forces it to start over.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#8. I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can.

Ian McKellen

#9. [On being the oldest living human being:] God must have forgotten me.

Jeanne Calment

#10. I fall in love with human beings based on who they are, not based on what they do or what sex they are.

Shailene Woodley

#11. Sharing an idea you care about is a generous way to change your world for the better.

Seth Godin

#12. I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.

Rita Mae Brown

#13. What's the use of a high school education if you can't recall it when needed later on?

Hal Clement

#14. We all have our paths in life we are supposed to follow to find who we are supposed to be, but it's not always a straight path. There is something inside of us that guides us, and if you are quiet and listen to it, you'll be all right.

Kyan Douglas