#explanations

The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the last men will look to them for explanations, or apologies. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#explanations #forgotten-past #future-generations #dreams

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#explanations #patience #storytelling #storytelling

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted. ↗

— Michael Behe

#decide #explanations #game #permitted #rules

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#current #explanations #fabric #fit #making

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

— Dennis Prager

#behavior #explanations #human #human behavior #left

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily. ↗

— Harry Browne

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It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

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Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail. ↗

— Criss Jami

#burdens #explaining #explanations #frustration #goals

I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#get #i #satisfied #school #tv