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

  Steven Pinker

  Mind, Today, Genetics

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

  Pat Riley

  Sports, Teamwork, Volleyball

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic. Proposals about that have been all over the map.

  Edward Witten

  Time, Three, Maps

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• There are no explanations, there are no answers.

  Jessica Lange

  Answers

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• Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

  Erykah Badu

  Medicine, Feel Good, Kind

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

  Michael Behe

  Games, Arbitrary, Used

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

  David Deutsch

  Majority, Tests, Failing

  David Deutsch (2011). “The Fabric of Reality”, p.13, Penguin UK

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Waste, Eternity

  Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) (1882). “Selected speeches, ed. by T.E. Kebbel”

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• I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.

  Seth Lloyd

  Metaphor, Program, Capacity

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• Golden Rule”: “That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.

  Hillel the Elder

  Golden, Hateful, Torah

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• Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Stupid, Stupidity, Trump

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• What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

  William Godwin

  Children, Parent, Sound

  William Godwin (1831). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author”, p.276

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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

  Giving, Community, Mental Health

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Science, Fiction, World

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

  Paul Ricoeur

  Destiny, World, Myth

  Paul Ricoeur (1974). “The Conflict of Interpretations”, p.391, Northwestern University Press

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• In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.

  William Robertson Smith

  Religious, People, Religion

  William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.17, Transaction Publishers

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• There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.

  Russell Crowe

  Ties, Beautiful Mind, Mathematical

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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

  Character, Mind, Subjectivity

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• As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.

  Ronald Blythe

  Church, Helping, Bathroom

  'The Age of Illusion' (1963) ch. 12

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• I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

  Don DeLillo

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• Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.

  Solange Knowles

  Giving, Decision, Persons

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Simple, Men, Europe

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.24, tredition

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• Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions having occurred in the physical state of the earth's surface.

  George Julius Poulett Scrope

  Science, Earth, Revolution

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• Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term.

  Aristotle

  Science, Thinking, Doe

  Aristotle, (2014). “The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, One-Volume Digital Edition”, p.277, Princeton University Press

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• The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.

  Dale Carnegie

  Argument, Seems

  Dale Carnegie, Dorothy Carnegie (1977). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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