Explanations Quotes

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I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school. — Erykah Badu
To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. — Tony Campolo
I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I… — Julia Child
I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success. — Paulo Coelho
In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended on an insistence… — Bruce Alberts
Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime. — Olavo de Carvalho
There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully accept that you do not know, you give up struggling to find answers… — Eckhart Tolle
Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no… — Carlos Castaneda
In a word, I consider hospitals only as the entrance to scientific medicine; they are the first field of observation which a physician enters; but… — Claude Bernard
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
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
It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and… — Ernest Nagel
To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but… — Andre Gide
Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve a person any… — Steven Pinker
Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis. — Napoleon Hill
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
We tolerate, even promote, many things we once regarded as evil, wrong, or immoral. And then we seek "explanations" for an act that seems beyond… — Cal Thomas
[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task of… — Karl Popper
Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love goes on, the love goes on, blind to laws and… — Anais Nin

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