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Isaac Newton quote: "To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man..."
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age Isaac Newton
I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them. Philip Pullman
William Butler Yeats quote: "What can be explained is not poetry."
What can be explained is not poetry. William Butler Yeats
All facts are. In a world where everythingis given and nothing is explained, the fecundity of a value or of ametaphysic is a notion devoid of meaning. Albert Camus
Many suburban legislators representing affluent school districts use terms such as "sinkhole" when opposing funding for Chicago's children. "We can't keep throwing money," said Governor Thompson in 1988, "into a black hole." The Chicago Tribune notes that, when this phrase is used, people hasten to explain that it is not intended as a slur against the race of many of Chicago's children. "But race," says the Tribune, "never is far from the surface... Jonathan Kozol
The party and the Krikkit warship looked, in their writhings, a little like two ducks, one of which is trying to make a third duck inside the second duck, whilst the second duck is trying very hard to explain that it doesn't feel ready for a third duck right now, is uncertain that it would want any putative third duck anyway, and certainly not whilst it, the second duck, was busy flying. Douglas Adams
Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later [...]. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got. We're on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn't it? Julian Barnes
And I saw then again, and for good, what I had always been afraid to see, and had pretended not to see in him: that he was a woman as well as a man. Any need to explain the sources of that fear vanished with the fear; what I was left with was, at last, acceptance of him as he was. Ursula K. Le Guin
I hate confrontations. It's so much easier to walk away than it is to explain to someone that you never want to see them again. Meg Cabot
Mark Twain quote: "Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to..."
Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles Mark Twain
Swearing relieves the feelings - that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn't answer with her. She said I had no business to have such feelings. Jerome K. Jerome
LIBERATION LEADS TO LIBERATION. These are the first words of truth? not truth in quotation marks but truth in the real meaning of the word; truth which is not merely theoretical, not simply a word, but truth that can be realized in practice. The meaning behind these words may be explained as follows: By liberation is meant the liberation which is the aim of all schools, all religions, at all times. This liberation can indeed be very great. All men desire it and strive after it. But it cannot... G. I. Gurdjieff
Carl Sagan quote: "In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to..."
In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work. Carl Sagan
Oscar Wilde quote: "Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology..."
Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored. Oscar Wilde
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. Leo Tolstoy

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