Isaac Newton

Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent.

English Mathematician

Nicolaus Copernicus

Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe.

Polish Scientist

Alex Tizon

When depicting Asian people in movies, books, and television or as historical figures, it's more important to humanize them and give them all of the dimensions of humanity, and that includes sexuality. Ascribe the human the full range of human qualities.

Filipino Author

Howard Schultz

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.

American Businessman

Candice Bergen

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

American Actress

Joseph Campbell

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

American Author

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

English Politician

Hilary Mantel

When you get fat, you get a new personality. You can't help it. Complete strangers ascribe it to you.

English Writer

Unknown

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

James M. Barrie

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

British Playwright

Use 'ascribe' when emphasizing the cause of an event or situation.

Causation Emphasis

'Ascribe' often suggests the cause is an opinion, not a proven fact.

Not Proven

'Ascribe' can subtly imply blame or credit without being direct.

Subtle Implied Blame

Use 'ascribe' to link creations or discoveries with their originators.

Authorship Attribution

In historical texts, 'ascribe' connects works to a specific period or culture.

Historical Context

'Ascribe' implies some degree of uncertainty about the true creator or origin.

Uncertain Origin

 fascinating thing about this creative act the ontological designing that's taking place here is that everything that we designed designs us back think about that we create this currency and we say this is worth this much once we ascribe that meaning to that then that takes on a life of its own that can

Jason Silva on Money PIPE...

 marginalized groups and those without equitable access to technology. But just because esports has a long way to go, doesn't mean its skills don't deserve respect. And what particularly bugs me is how often we ascribe such enormous value to traditional athletic talents off the field.

How video game skills...

 It turns out to be very important. Now if you ascribe to the God complex, what you do is you find yourself a little God. You find yourself a mathematician; you find yourself a physicist -- somebody who understands the dynamics of this fluid. And he will, or she will,

Tim Harford: Trial,...

 You know, we often think that language mirrors the world in which we live, and I find that's not true. The language actually makes the world in which we live. Language is not -- I mean, things don't have any mutable value by themselves; we ascribe them a value.

Chris Abani: On humanity...

 began to ascribe duties and even that was not a very beautiful child I saw how attitudes began to change I saw how hard stances began to melt and increasingly there was like greater cooperation better appreciation of my talkative and

Giving situations new...

 Now, I know some of you in this room find this to be a risky proposition. There are some people here who will turn around and be quite disillusioned by what's happened around the world and basically ascribe that to economic growth.

Economic growth has...

 Is God just another name for the universe, with no independent existence at all? I don't know. To what extent can we ascribe personality to God? I don't know. In the end, we have to say, "I don't know."

Rev. Tom Honey: How...

 is difficult to account for, but ultimately I ascribe it to an admiration for people with a complex moral awareness, with a heritage of guilt and defeat matched by defiance and bravado.

Ben Dunlap: The...

 not just on medicine's ability to prolong life. We, like the Torajans, base our decisions about life on the meanings and the definitions that we ascribe to death.

Kelli Swazey: Life that...

 that it's basically over. Now, I don't ascribe to the binary, as a nonbinary person myself. But gender definitely isn't over. Or, at least I don't think it is.