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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.


Eugene Ionesco


#explanation #gateway #incomprehensible #only #separates

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 out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.


Eben Alexander


#believed #brain #death #described #escaped

There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.


Eben Alexander


#body #conscious #explanation #fact #inner

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.


Charles Babbage


#capable #difference #distinction #explanation #limit

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.


Charles Darwin


#created #each #explanation #gain #having

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 of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.


David Deutsch


#complexity #contain #deepest #explanations #hierarchy

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.


David Herbert Lawrence


#blood #deep #description #experience #explanation

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.


Pat Riley


#complacency #constantly #defeat #explain #explanations

The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in.


Eric Roberts


#built #characters #comes #describing #ease

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.


Martin H. Fischer


#correct #establishment #explanation #former #hypothesis






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