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If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.

The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set....

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No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplic...

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None of these things bothered us excessively; we have always been a family that carries bewilderment...

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None of these things bothered us excessively; we have always been a family that carries bewilderment...

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None of these things bothered us excessively; we have always been a family that carries bewilderment...

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None of these things bothered us excessively; we have always been a family that carries bewilderment...

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Save your explanations, I got some questions for you first and you'd better answer them!' [slurred H...

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The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough,...

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It's simpler to believe in a miracle.

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the se...

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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into th...

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Alfred North WhiteheadThe Concept of Nature: The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College

The lack of mystery in our modern life is our downfall and our poverty. A human life is worth as muc...

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Dietrich BonhoefferGod Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.