Explanations Quotes

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For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations. — Carl Sagan
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
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
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
It is not history, theology or mythology that interest me. It is the fact that history, theology or mythology could have alternative interpretations or explanations.… — Ashwin Sanghi
Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations. — Milan Kundera
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
However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can… — Unknown Author
Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as… — Alison Gopnik
Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental… — Stephen Hawking
Scientists - who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests - figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once the Big Bang… — Seth Shostak
The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take. — Robert Zoellick
Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations. — Chuck Schumer
We should keep in mind that it is easy to concoct stories explaining the past or to become confident about dubious scenarios of the future.… — Leonard Mlodinow
And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclusions that would fit the political agenda of one… — David Kay
A key issue in developmental biology at that time was the problem of how cells underwent differentiation, with most workers concentrating on explanations in terms… — Paul Nurse
For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the… — Adam Hochschild
This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This has put me… — Richard Rohr
If explanations are needed, then what's the meaning of TRUST? — Abhishek Tiwari

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