“It’s sorcery,” Cade said, as if explaining things to a slow child. “That’s the explanation.” “I’m a scientist,” she said. “I need a little more than ‘a wizard did it.” — Christopher Farnsworth Copy Share Image
By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must plainly demand them; from them however he deduces the phenomena absolutely completely as necessary. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image