...supernatural explanations always mean the end of…

The reason people turn to supernatural explanations is that the mind abhors a vacuum of explanation. Because we do not yet have a fully…

— Michael Shermer

Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible though very unlikely that our whole world is controlled by elves.…

— Jerry A. Coyne

“I have never even seen a witch, let alone felt the need to burn one to death. We can conclude, then, that our forefathers,…

— Bobby Henderson

One can discern a few very general myths that facilitate the birth of further myths: that everything is possible; that whatever we have failed…

— Mario Bunge

“C. S. Lewis depicts another source of our misconceptions about Heaven: naturalism, the belief that the world can be understood in scientific terms, without…

— Randy Alcorn

In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended on an…

— Bruce Alberts

“No knowledge comes from the outside world or an imaginary supernatural paradise.”

— Abhijit Naskar

In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding…

— Jerry A. Coyne

But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of a theory…

— David Stove

“The easiest explanations are often the right ones.”

— Hanya Yanagihara

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

— Peter Weir

“Your explanation is good, but your herring doesn't fry, as we say in Ramaldah," he exploded.”

— Andrew Ashling

There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully accept that you do not know, you give up struggling to find…

— Eckhart Tolle

“You understand how much you know about a subject the moment you give explanations to someone who doesn't know anything about it.”

— Luigina Sgarro

Explanations don't comfort. You won't feel better if you know why. It won't hurt any less.

— Rick Warren