Explanations Quotes

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[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause. — Peter Medawar
There are no explanations, there are no answers. — Jessica Lange
I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly… — Eben Alexander
Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted. — Michael Behe
I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for… — Rob Bell
The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level… — David Deutsch
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests. — David Deutsch
Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them. — David Deutsch
Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests. — David Deutsch
You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations. — Baltasar Gracian
Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric. — Kary Mullis
Absurd, irreducible; nothing â€” not even a profound and secret delirium of nature â€” could explain it. Obviously I did not know everything, I had… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history. — John Shelby Spong
The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our… — Tullian Tchividjian
The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the PhÃ¦nomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations. — Isaac Newton
I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Critics should help people see for themselves; they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit that if... a… — Georges Braque
As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age--suppressed, I suppose by the… — Mahlon Hoagland
With old inflation riding the headlines, I have read till I am bleary-eyed, and I can't get head from tails of the whole thing. ...… — Will Rogers
...contemporary physicists come in two varieties. Type 1 physicists are bothered by EPR and Bell's Theorem. Type 2 (the majority) are not, but one has… — David Mermin

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