#explanation

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock. ↗

— Anaxagoras

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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 in terms of physics and chemistry. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

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There has to be new words to explain new worlds. ↗

— Toba Beta

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People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation. ↗

— Nancy Kerrigan

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I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came back to specialize in constitutional law where history is so essentially a part and an explanation of much that exists, the two disciplines blended very well. ↗

— Frank Scott

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