#lana

It's simpler to believe in a miracle. ↗

— William Golding

#explanations #miracles #religion #religion

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

— Erykah Badu

#get #i #satisfied #school #tv

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock. ↗

— Anaxagoras

#explanation #god #great #hot #moon

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

— Erykah Badu

#explanation #feel #feel good #good #hopefully

But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#beforehand #believe #catholic #committed #died

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 five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#employee #explanation #five #new #new skills

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#because #car #design #designer #engineer

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