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


Eugene Ionesco


#explanation #gateway #incomprehensible #only #separates

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

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


#capable #difference #distinction #explanation #limit

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


#almost #anything #came #down #every

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


Robert Foster Bennett


#every #every time #explanation #looking #machiavelli

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

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.


Charles Darwin


#created #each #explanation #gain #having

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.


David Deutsch


#complexity #contain #deepest #explanations #hierarchy

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.


Galileo Galilei


#cloak #drop #even #explanation #facts






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