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Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.


Jared Diamond


#broadest #convincing #dinosaurs #eventually #explanations

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.


Mary Wollstonecraft


#bear #discussion #explanation #man #parity

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


Eugene Ionesco


#explanation #gateway #incomprehensible #only #separates

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


#almost #anything #came #down #every

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


Tony Campolo


#discussion #educators #expect #explanations #hardly

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

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


Steven Pinker


#explanation #genetics #intellectuals #invokes #mind

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


Paul Ricoeur


#else #explanation #history #myth #something

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






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