#explained

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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The backgrounds in Lord of the Rings are all explained. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

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The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained. ↗

— Maurice de Vlaminck

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Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed. ↗

— Anna Freud

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Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

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Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

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Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions. ↗

— Stefan Kanfer

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I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals. ↗

— Mary Wesley

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