#explanation

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy. ↗

— Denis Norden

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Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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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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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

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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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What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation. ↗

— Richard Russo

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Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities. ↗

— Arthur Keith

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