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• Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst qualities of the parents.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Educational, School, Parent

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• We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Space, Atoms, Body

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2003). “A Nietzsche Reader”, p.77, Penguin UK

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• There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

  Hazel Scott

  Family, Children, Reason

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• There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

  Frank A. Clark

  Children, Christian Inspirational, Trying

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• I'm not smart enough to lie

  Ronald Reagan

  Smart, Liars, Lying

  Ronald Reagan, Bill Adler (1981). “The Reagan wit”, Jameson Books

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• Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Courage, Warrior

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• Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own research work. Train your hands and your mind. Become curious. Invent your own problems and solve them. You can see things going on all about you. Inquire into them. Seek out answers to your own questions. There are many phenomena going on in nature the explanation of which cannot be found in books. Find out why these phenomena take place. Information a boy gets by himself is enormously more valuable than that which is taught to him in school.

  Irving Langmuir

  Book, Teaching, School

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• In a word, I consider hospitals only as the entrance to scientific medicine; they are the first field of observation which a physician enters; but the true sanctuary of medical science is a laboratory; only there can he seek explanations of life in the normal and pathological states by means of experimental analysis.

  Claude Bernard

  Life, Mean, Science

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.168, Courier Corporation

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• When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.

  Epicurus

  Science, Appearance, Theory

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• I open each class with an explanation of the singular importance of being a "dealmaker." The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable.

  Tim Ferriss

  Simple, Reality, Class

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• The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties by experiences [experiments] and then to proceed slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them. For hypotheses should be employed only in explaining the properties of things, but not assumed in determining them; unless so far as they may furnish experiments.

  Isaac Newton

  Philosophy, Science, Experience

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• Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces of nature from the phenomena of motions and then to demonstrate the other phenomena from these forces. It is to these ends that the general propositions in books 1 and 2 are directed, while in book 3 our explanation of the system of the world illustrates these propositions.

  Isaac Newton

  Nature, Philosophy, Book

  Sir Isaac Newton (2014). “Newton: Philosophical Writings”, p.60, Cambridge University Press

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• Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ignorance, Simple, Religion

  "Should Religion Impact Your Vote?" by Roy Speckhardt, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 7, 2011.

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• A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand the same kind of explanation in his own right.

  Richard Dawkins

  Design, Religion, Atheism

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations and blinds them to the wonderful real explanations that we have within our grasp.

  Richard Dawkins

  Real, People, Religion

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• I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Atheism, Problem

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• Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never short an explanation for anything.)

  Isaac Asimov

  Fear, Atheism, Rage

  Isaac Asimov (1989). “The Tyrannosaurus Prescription and 100 Other Essays”

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• The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought and action that will (they believe) cover everything; and then they try to impose that on all thinking people.

  Gilbert Highet

  Fear, Believe, Thinking

  Gilbert Highet (1954). “Man's Unconquerable Mind”, p.57, Columbia University Press

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• There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of God.... There is no other possibility. Spontaneous generation was scientifically disproved 120 years ago by Louis Pasteur and others, but that just leaves us with only one other possibility... that life came as a supernatural act of creation by God, but I can't accept that philosophy because I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution.

  George Wald

  Philosophy, Believe, Years

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• Set aside the many competing explanations of the big bang; something made an entire cosmos out of nothing. It is this realization - that something transcendent started it all - which has hard-science types... using terms like "miracle."

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Miracle, Bangs, Cosmos

  "The New Convergence". www.wired.com. December 1, 2002.

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• To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

  Agatha Christie

  Weakness, Excuse

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• Pain is strong, aye - but friends' eyes, more strong." I told him that he knows next to nothing about me & I know nothing about him. He jabbed at his eyes & jabbed at mine, as if that single gesture were ample explanation.

  David Mitchell

  Strong, Pain, Eye

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• You wear nice clothes, you seek respect, you make a lot of money, but what's the point? It's all pointless. Of course, this kind of meaninglessness might suit this crappy nation. But, you see, we still have emotions like joy and happiness, right? They may not mount to much. But they fill up our emptiness. That's the only explanation I have.

  Koushun Takami

  Nice, Clothes, Joy

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• I really didn't say everything I said.

  Yogi Berra

  Silly, Mlb, Dumb

  Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 17 Mar. 1986

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• We dislike talking about our experiences. No explanations are needed for those who have been inside, and the others will understand neither how we felt then nor how we feel now.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Talking, Needed, Feels

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.13, Beacon Press

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