#explanation

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Eugene Ionesco

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In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid. ↗

— Dave Barry

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Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation. ↗

— Robert Foster Bennett

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To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. ↗

— Tony Campolo

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

— Charles Darwin

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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

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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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For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will. ↗

— 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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