Explanation Quotes

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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
If history is any guide at all, it seems to me to suggest that there is a final theory. In this century we have seen… — Steven Weinberg
When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation… — Epicurus
I open each class with an explanation of the singular importance of being a "dealmaker." The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable. — Tim Ferriss
The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties by… — Isaac Newton
Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces of nature from… — Isaac Newton
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely… — Richard Dawkins
A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand… — Richard Dawkins
Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations and blinds them… — Richard Dawkins
Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important. — Christopher Hitchens
Preaching for life changes requires far less information and more application. Less explanation and more inspiration. — Andy Stanley
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… — Peter Kreeft
I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. — Richard Dawkins
Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never… — Isaac Asimov
The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought… — Gilbert Highet
The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation. — Hilton Kramer
There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of God.... There is… — George Wald
Set aside the many competing explanations of the Big Bang; something made an entire cosmos out of nothing. It is this realization-that something transcendent started… — Gregg Easterbrook
Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes. Now that biochemists… — Phillip E. Johnson
Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock. — Anaxagoras

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