#lana

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

— Eugene Ionesco

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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

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There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well. ↗

— Eben Alexander

#body #conscious #explanation #fact #inner

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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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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