Explanation Quotes - Page 36

• In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

  Alan Lightman

  Artist, Events, Delight

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.29, Vintage

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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

  Self, Mind, Facts

  "Neurosurgeon Who Doubted Afterlife Now Convinced It's Real" by Audrey Barrick, www.christianpost.com. October 9, 2012.

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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

  Journey, People, Brain

  "Proof of Heaven: A Doctor's Experience With the Afterlife". www.newsweek.com. October 8, 2012.

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• I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Needs, Stories

  "The Heretical Rob Bell and Why Love Wins" by Cathleen Falsani, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2011.

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• Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.

  David Deutsch

  Light, Views, Results

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• Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

  David Deutsch

  Tests, Failing, Tested

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• Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to them by definition, because if you're trying to summarize something for your 1-year-old, you put it in very simple terms. You only gradually complicate the explanation as they get older.

  Emma Donoghue

  Lying, Kids, Simple

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• You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Political, Should, Clear

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• It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Philosophy, World

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.101, Courier Corporation

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• A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom.

  Little Richard

  Bops

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• Baby, your nothing but too much trouble. Gotta bury this love and bury the shovel.

  Clay Walker

  Baby, Too Much, Trouble

  Song: Bury The Shovel, Album: Hypnotize the Moon, 1995

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• Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.

  Al Yankovic

  Miserable, You Left Me, Dear

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• From the three, you then use one to make eight ones. You add those ones to the three, and you get one-three base eight, or, in other words, In base ten you have eleven, and you take away seven. And seven from eleven is four. Now go back to the sixty-fours, you're left with two.

  Tom Lehrer

  Two, Eight, Add

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• He's watching me watching you watching him watching me watching him watching.

  Jethro Tull

  Song: Watching Me Watching You

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• I am, I cried. I am, I said. And I am lost.

  Neil Diamond

  Lost, Said, Cried

  Song: I Am..... I Said

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• I don't like you, but I love you.

  Smokey Robinson

  Love You, Like You, I Don't Like You

  Song: You've Really Got A Hold On Me, 2005

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• I feel like a juggler running out of hands.

  Elvis Costello

  Running, Hands, Feels

  Song: Welcome to the Working Week, Album: My Aim Is True, 1977

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• I forgot to remember to forget.

  Elvis Presley

  Remember, Forget

  Song: I Forgot To Remember To Forget

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• I got a plan to get out of here, I've been working at a convenient store.

  Tracy Chapman

  Stores, Plans, Convenient

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• I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent.

  Ray Charles

  Clothes, Pay, Pawns

  Song: Hard Times

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• I see the light in your smile.

  Stevie Wonder

  Light, Your Smile

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• I will bring you a flower from the floor of the sea to wear in your hair.

  Smokey Robinson

  Flower, Hair, Sea

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• I'm weak cause I believe you and I'm mad because I love.

  Ashanti

  Believe, Mad, Causes

  Song: Foolish, Album: Ashanti, 2002

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• If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming.

  Neil Young

  Swimming, Want, Lost

  Song: Like An Inca, Album: Trans

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• I'll close my eyes, so I won't see, all of the love that you don't feel for me.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Eye, Feels

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