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Tag Name "Explanation" (596)

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Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance the pot could not hold itself.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--
Emily Dickinson
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The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied. They want villains to hate and heroes to cheer - and they don't want explanations that do not give them that.
Thomas Sowell
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Where two factions see vividly each its own aspect, and contrive their own explanations of what they see, it is almost impossible for them to credit each other with honesty.
Walter Lippmann
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Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.
Mark Twain
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God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.
Jonathan Winters
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The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational explanation).
Vladimir Arnold
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Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
Madeleine L'Engle
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Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.
Dennis Prager
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I've made an ass of myself so many times I often wonder if I am one.
Norman Mailer
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I owe everything - my success and happiness - to men.
Dinah Shore
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I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.
Seth Lloyd
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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye.
Waylon Jennings
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I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.
David Lee Roth
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We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.
Ronald Blythe
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Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.
Ralph P. Boas, Jr.
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[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.
Peter Medawar
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Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.
Stephen Hawking
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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
Red Auerbach
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You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations.
Baltasar Gracian
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The true God is not a form idealized he/she/it is real and therefore, by definition, imperfect only an abstraction can be free of flaws. And since God is imperfect, there will be suffering.... There is no perfect God. And your suffering requires no more explanation than that unavoidable imperfection.
Robert J. Sawyer
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In one thing you have not changed, dear friend, said Aragorn: you still speak in riddles. What? In riddles? said Gandalf. No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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