If we had to accept the idea of an independent creator, the explanations given in [several Buddhist texts] which completely refutes the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate. — Lou Holtz Copy Share Image
When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
Catherine" she paused. I waited, tapping my finger on my desk. Then she spoke words that had me almost falling out of… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
“It is very difficult to understand man. It is also very difficult to understand what a man does. If he is able… — Aacharya Mahapragya Copy Share Image
Scientists often talk of parsimony (as in "the simplest explanation is probably correct," also known as Occam's razor), but we should not… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
And never - not in a single case - was the explanation, 'I was pressured to do this.' The explanation was very… — David Kay Copy Share Image
I'm not an egomaniac like a lot of people say. But I am the world's best dancer, that's for sure. — Michael Flatley Copy Share Image
In the moment of hardship, we ask why some things happen. In those moments of suffering, questioning prayers that do not ask… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Historians are presumed to be unable to "do psychology," which is "mystical" anyway, so they are forced to accept the most "rational"… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
If you reject the infinite, you are stuck with the finite, and the finite is parochial... the best explanation of anything eventually… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
“Occam's razor." "Yes. When formulating a theory, eliminate as few assumptions as possible. In other words, the simplest explanation is the most… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
God doesn't owe us an explanation for everything and actually what I've found is that explanations don't comfort. What comforts is the… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
It appears, from all that precedes, reasonably certain that if there be any relative motion between the earth and the luminiferous ether,… — Albert A. Michelson Copy Share Image
Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The relevant features of scientific practice often have mundane explanations which don't point to any deep metaphysical moral. (Thus it would simply… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
