Explanation Quotes

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For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations. — Carl Sagan
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for… — C.S. Lewis
I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different. — Oscar Wilde
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. — Jean-Luc Godard
I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.... Usually one's cooking is better than one thinks… — Julia Child
The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation,… — Christopher Hitchens
Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race. — Victor J. Stenger
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the… — Alfred North Whitehead
You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later… — Harry Browne
Vision, I say, is related to light itself. But of this sensation and the things pertaining to it, I pretend to understand but little; and… — Galileo Galilei
The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations. — Maurice Bejart
They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price — Robert A. Heinlein
I took care of young adults with cystic fibrosis when I was in my residency training and found this to be a disease that was… — Francis Collins
War reporters are often seen as a wild bunch of thrill-seekers who wade into danger zones simply for the sake of the adrenalin high the… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more… — Michael Korda
The reason people turn to supernatural explanations is that the mind abhors a vacuum of explanation. Because we do not yet have a fully natural… — Michael Shermer
Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want. — Sabrina Bryan
To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team. — Dries van Noten
There are good reasons why natural selection has become widely accepted as an explanation of evolutionary development. When applied to mammals and other large animals,… — John Tyler Bonner

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