Carolyn Porco Quotes

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

There is a reason for everything.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

Nihil est sine ratione. There is nothing without a reason.

There's always a reason for everything.

Every why hath a wherefore.

When something happens, we always say it happens for a reason.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

Happy is the one who knows the causes of things.

I understand HOW. I do not understand WHY

I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.

Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.

You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.

Every why has a wherefore.

I'm just quizzical about how things work and why things are.

You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.

The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

Anything I do, I always have a reason for.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way.

Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.

Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

God has created a logical universe of cause and effect. He who repudiates causality actually repudiates reason.