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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.

    Light   Views   Results  
  • And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.

  • Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.

    Fun   Littles   Logic  
    "Alan Wake: gaming's greatest Stephen King story" by Matthew Byrd, www.denofgeek.com. December 21, 2017.
  • Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation

    Art   Order   Law  
  • On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime. She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain. Don't bother asking for explanations, she'll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.

    Song: The Year Of The Cat
  • Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

    Cairo   Want   Smooth  
  • Cinderella's glass shoe was the perfect size.... so why did it slip off as she ran? It must have been to attract the attention of Prince Charming. I don't see any other explanation.

    Glasses   Shoes   Perfect  
    "Nana". Manga by Ai Yazawa, 2000 - 2009.
  • I'm standing naked before you. Don't you want more than sex?

    Sex   Naked   Want  
    Song: Leather
  • A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he made room for her on the seat. Her explanation was that she would not sit beside a draft dodger who was a Negro as well. She added that the least he could do was fight for his country the way her son was fighting on Iwo Jima. The story said that the man pulled his body away from the window to show an armless sleeve. He said quietly and with great dignity, "Then ask your son to look around for my arm, which I left over there.

    Country   Fighting   Son  
    Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.210, Random House
  • Sometimes I think we're on this world for three reasons: to be useful, to tell each other stories and to collect stuff. It's the only explanation for eBay. We love to collect stuff, and at least if we're collecting stuff in cyberspace we're not deforesting the Sierra Nevada.

    Source: www.sfgate.com
  • To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction one or more universal laws, together with certain singular statements, the initial conditions ... We have thus two different kinds of statement, both of which are necessary ingredients of a complete causal explanation.

    Mean   Science   Law  
  • By an incredible coincidence, Gamow and Edward Condon, who had discovered simultaneously and independently the explanation of radioactivity (one in Russia, the other in this country), came to spend the the last ten years of their lives within a hundred yards of each other in Boulder.

    Country   Russia   Years  
    "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 267), 1991.
  • I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery, but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing.

    God   Science   Order  
    "Sizing up the Cosmos: An Astronomer's Quest" by John Noble Wilford, www.nytimes.com. March 12, 1991.
  • Young people, those who think they're experts in science, there's no doubt. They just believe it, and so there has to be an explanation - and whatever man is doing has caused the jet stream to slow down, and that is permitting the polar vortex.

    Believe   Men   Thinking  
  • Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject my theory.

    Charles Darwin (1869). “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.418
  • Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it, too, hangs together, makes sense, leaves no loose ends, and is never (but never) at a loss for explanation. In a state of bewilderment it may therefore bring comfort and relief.... give its subject a new and deeper understanding of his own condition and of the nature of his relationship to his fellow men. A mythical structure will be built up around him which makes sense and is believable-in, regardless of whether or not it is true.

  • Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.

    Hate   People   Poor  
  • Every articulate family ... generates its own stories, explanations and myths to illuminate the differences in temperament and talent among its children, the lines of allegiance and influence between parent and child.

    Elizabeth Fishel (1997). “Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties”, Red Wheel
  • Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out all of Hamlet by chance. But when we find the text of Hamlet, we don't wonder whether it came from chance and monkeys. Why then does the atheist use that incredibly improbable explanation for the universe? Clearly, because it is his only chance of remaining an atheist. At this point we need a psychological explanation of the atheist rather than a logical explanation of the universe.

    Peter Kreeft (1988). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics”, p.26, Ignatius Press
  • There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.

    Funny   Sex   Humor  
    The International Herald Tribune, January 24, 1992.
  • My only real solace? Sleep. In the absence of an explanation of anything, for everything, I live for it and what it can bring.

    Real   Sleep   Absence  
    Rebecca Lim (2010). “Mercy (Mercy, Book 1)”, p.7, HarperCollins UK
  • After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even know the whole of it! Perhaps she should have written some of it down...but really what would have been the point in that? Everything passed, she would too. This perspective offered her an unexpected clarity she nearly enjoyed, but even with this new clarity the world offered no more explanation for itself than it ever had.

    Susan Minot (2010). “Evening”, p.17, Vintage
  • Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.

    Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.465, VM eBooks
  • The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

  • Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

    Suffering   World   Kind  
    Oscar Wilde (2008). “De Profundis: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.33, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • And I will add this point of merely personal experience of humanity: when men have a real explanation they explain it, eagerly and copiously and in common speech, as Huxley freely gave it when he thought he had it. When they have no explanation to offer, they give short dignified replies, disdainful of the ignorance of the multitude.

    Real   Ignorance   Men  
    "Doubts About Darwinism". The Illustrated London News, July 17, 1920.
  • Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones.

  • The scientific method is the ultimate elegant explanation. It is the ultimate foundation for anything worthy of the name "explanation". It makes no sense to talk about explanations without having a process for deciding which are right and which are wrong, and in a broad sense that is what the scientific method is about. All of the other wonderful explanations celebrated here owe their origin and credibility to the process by which they are verified-the scientific method.

  • Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own research work. Train your hands and your mind. Become curious. Invent your own problems and solve them. You can see things going on all about you. Inquire into them. Seek out answers to your own questions. There are many phenomena going on in nature the explanation of which cannot be found in books. Find out why these phenomena take place. Information a boy gets by himself is enormously more valuable than that which is taught to him in school.

    Book   Teaching   School  
  • The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.

    Eight   Law   Imitation  
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