Explanations Quotes

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With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning. — Guy Debord
And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations… — Michael Polanyi
As time passed I became an avid reader of popular scientific books, wanting to know as much as I could about the world in which… — Vine Deloria, Jr.
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient… — Jack Vance
Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces. — Gunnar Myrdal
Explanations are a substitute for trust. — Tullian Tchividjian
Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for… — E. O. Wilson
Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations. — Paul Lockhart
Mathematics is the art of explanation. If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity-- to pose their own problems, to make their… — Paul Lockhart
Before our globe had become egg-shaped or round it was a long trail of cosmic dust or fire-mist, moving and writhing like a serpent. This,… — Manly Hall
Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider,… — Adrian McKinty
Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in… — G. H. Hardy
The primary problem is not to provide the public with the knowledge of how far it is to the nearest star and what genes are… — Richard Lewontin
Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept… — Richard Lewontin
There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that never quite finds… — Christian Wiman
Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations. — Ralph P. Boas, Jr.
People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination. — Paul David Tripp
The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing can happen. What helps me… — Anouk Aimee
I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture.Â I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I… — Saul Leiter
The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind. — Rabindranath Tagore

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