Isaac Newton
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
"Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation"
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Explanation
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Rosalind Franklin
Chemist, X-ray Crystallographer
"Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment."
Johannes Kepler
Astronomer, Mathematician
"Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question."
Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation."
Gunter Grass
Novelist
"Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped."
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"If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation."
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"The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything."
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"I fear explanations explanatory of things explained."
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"We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small."
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"We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words."
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"Every explanation is after all an hypothesis."
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"God means movement, and not explanation."
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"Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation."
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"Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer."
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"The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation."
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"The patient needs an experience, not an explanation."
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"Listen to me, don't listen to me. Talk to me, don't talk to me."
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"How are you, G.I. Joe? It seems to me that most of you are poorly informed about the going of the war, to say nothing about a correct explanation of your presence over here. Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die."
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"My uncle used to love me, but she died."
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"Life is bigger than our explanations of it. To be in touch with life, go beyond your explanations."
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"When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct."
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"Medication without explanation is obscene."
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"We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place."
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"There isnt always an explanation for everything."
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"Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post."
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