#explanations

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death. ↗

— Eben Alexander

#believed #brain #death #described #escaped

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

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

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. ↗

— Pat Riley

#complacency #constantly #defeat #explain #explanations

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

#events #everything #explain #explanation #explanations

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

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#energy #explain #explanations #genesis #i

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests. ↗

— David Deutsch

#because #contain #experimental #explanations #fail

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#life #like #making #time #waste