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Tag Name "Explanation" (596)

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The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
Thomas Sowell
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Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.
David Deutsch
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I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem.
Richard Dawkins
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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
D. H. Lawrence
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If something comes up that is completely freaky, it's spiritual-looking to the scientist, the first explanation is not going to be that it's God, because the history of that has failed. It would have to be, like, the hundredth explanation.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Deep and elegant explanations relate to natural or social phenomena and the observer often has no place in them.
Dimitar Sasselov
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Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.
Michael Shermer
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As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm.
Martin Walser
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I've been taught ever since I was a kid that sex is filthy and forbidden, and that's the way I think it should be. The filthier and more forbidden it is, the more exciting it is.
Mel Brooks
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In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs, and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment of the subject.
Gerald R. Ford
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In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.
Tahir Shah
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I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.
Rob Bell
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
A. N. Wilson
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My words are a whisper, your deafness a shout.
Jethro Tull
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She's the gal in the red blue jeans.
Gene Vincent
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Never complain. Never explain.
Katharine Hepburn
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I hate all explanations they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some malevolent or at least not well disposed power. Normally it should not take place. So we have all through history crude explanations of death, as e.g., the influence of the serpent, the devil, sin.
Joseph Alexander Leighton
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...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.
Noam Chomsky
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I live in the middle of nowhere and I'm an insomniac. I just make the time and I read and write really fast so that makes a lot possible for me. I wish I had an explanation for it. I'm grateful for it.
Roxane Gay
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One can discern a few very general myths that facilitate the birth of further myths: that everything is possible that whatever we have failed to explain in normal and earthly terms must have paranormal or supernatural explanations and that science, being rational, cannot explain the irrational, such as taste and love.
Mario Bunge
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It’s all in the genes”: an explanation for the way things are that does not threaten the way things are. Why should someone feel unhappy or engage in antisocial behavior when that person is living in the freest and most prosperous nation on earth? It can’t be the system! There must be a flaw in the wiring somewhere.
Louis Menand
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I think the more rational explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six-foot leech from the surface of a human body means that that body is going to have more of its own blood in its own veins. Unless the leech finds another body, it is going to go hungry.
Dave Sim
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I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.
Calvin Coolidge
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