Quotes About Explanation

It is very interesting how the human mind works. We have the need to justify everything, to explain and understand everything, in order to feel safe. We have millions of questions that need answers because there are so many things that the reasoning mind cannot explain. It is not important if the answer is correct; just the answer itself makes us feel safe. This is why we make assumptions.

Humans have a need to explain and justify everything; we have a need for knowledge, and we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know.

It is very interesting how the human mind works. We have the need to justify everything, to explain and understand everything, in order to feel safe.

Master: It is Love. Love is the medicine that accelerates the process of healing. There is no other medicine but unconditional love. Not: I love you if, or I love myself if. There is no if. There is no justification. There is no explanation. It is just to love. Love yourself, love your neighbor, and love your enemies. This is simple, common sense, but we cannot love others until we love ourselves. That is why we must begin with self-love.

We have the need to justify everything, to explain and understand everything, in order to feel safe. We have millions of questions that need answers because there are so many things that the reasoning mind cannot explain. It is not important if the answer is correct; just the answer itself makes us feel safe. This is why we make assumptions.

People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation.

How would I explain to him that I couldn't make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I would immediately lose my inner balance? How would I explain that one of the arms of my internal scales would suddenly shoot upward? How would I explain that my hatred of him counterbalanced the weight of evil that had fallen on my youth? How would I explain that he embodied all the evils in my life? How would I explain to him that I needed to hate him?

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all, and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all, and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. But

it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. But yet we see around us every day the growth of new beliefs, which think themselves new; and which are yet but the old, which pretend to be young like the fine ladies at the opera. I suppose now you do not believe in corporeal transference. No? Nor in materialisation. No? Nor in astral bodies. No? Nor in the reading of thought. No? Nor in hypnotism.

Ah, a falha da nossa ciência é querer explicar tudo, e quando não consegue, diz que não há nada que explicar

Ah, o defeito da nossa ciência é que ela quer explicar tudo, e se não consegue explicar, então diz que não há nada a explicar. Ainda assim, vemos ao nosso redor todos os dias o crescimento de novas convicções, que pensam que são novas, e que não são nada mais que coisas antigas que fingem ser novas, como as belas damas na ópera.

It is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. But yet we see around us every day the growth of new beliefs, which think themselves new; and which are yet but the old, which pretend to be young—like the fine ladies at the opera.

A mecânica quântica é implacavelmente eficiente; explica aquilo que vemos, mas impede-vos de ver a explicação.

Religion is not meant to explain the universe. It cannot replace scientific research.

Rather than despair because a unique universe seems not to emerge, we are encouraged to celebrate: string theory makes the least plausible part of Weinberg's explanation of the cosmological constant-the requirement that there be many more than 10^124 different universes-suddenly seem plausible.

Winners always accept responsibility themselves for the consequences of their actions. Losers never do but instead always have some kind of explanation for why they are doing poorly.

This is why angry people are continually explaining and elaborating on the reasons for their negative feelings.

Philosophy is not in the business of explaining anything. Actual occasions explain what happened, not philosophy.

What happened to your eye, young lady?" "I fell down the stairs. What happened to your hair?

Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.

As science advances, there seems to be less and less for God to do. It's a big universe, of course, so He, She, or It, could be profitably employed in many places. But what has clearly been happening is that evolving before our eyes has been a God of the Gaps; that is, whatever it is we cannot explain lately is attributed to God. And then after a while, we explain it, and so that's no longer God's realm.