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Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred. — William Of Ockham

I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make. — Julia Child

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents. — William Least Heat-Moon

Science is the process of obscuring the marvelous with explanations. — James Rozoff

I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do. — Saul Leiter

The dead have a claim on us even heavier than that of the living, for they cannot hear our explanations, and we cannot ask their forgiveness. — Laurie R. King

It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed.
("The Wendigo") — Algernon Blackwood

Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her? — Allison Pearson

Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations. — Chuck Schumer

I didn't just see a future when I looked at Luke - I saw the explanations of my past. — Nicole Williams

Americans get very simple explanations of what happens to them. — Mick Jagger

The point of departure is a lack of
explanations. — Phindiwe Nkosi

Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them. — David Deutsch

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests. — David Deutsch

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations. — Carl Sandburg

Due to personal issues, I have been let go from the cast of Glee. Explanations will come shortly, — Chris Colfer

Oh, stop it, I tell myself. Stop looking for links and meaning and explanations. What did De Chirico say? The world is a museum of strangeness. — Kirsty Eagar

It is a sign of maturity ... to find explanations in charity. — Flannery O'Connor

Explanations take the mystery out of things, right? — Sarah Ockler

[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause. — Peter Medawar

Life is bigger than our explanations of it. To be in touch with life, go beyond your explanations. — Julio Olalla

The aim of the early Greek philosophers was to find natural, rather than supernatural, explanations for natural processes. — Jostein Gaarder

It is human nature to concoct explanations to fill the great void of the unknown. — Rae Carson

Love accepts the trying things of life without asking for explanations. It trusts and is at rest. — Amy Carmichael

All three explanations - eternal life, reincarnation, and nothingness - are descriptions of the same reality. — John K. Brown

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. — Abraham Lincoln

I'm not very good at giving people orderly explanations of things. — Haruki Murakami

Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations. — C.S. Lewis

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying. — Frank Herbert

Coincidences are the explanations of lazy and cowardly people for what they don't understand. — Patricia Nedelea

Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones. — William Of Ockham

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric. — Kary Mullis

Reality is far more complex and messy than many of the grander themes and explanations would have us believe. — Peter Dicken

Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations. — Milan Kundera

Anything that we can destroy but are unable to make is, in a sense sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not really explain anything. — E.F. Schumacher

Long prayers either consist of repetitions or of unnecessary explanations which God does not require. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Many of the lost will be found, eventually, dead or alive. Disappearances, after all, have explanations. — Diana Gabaldon

To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. — Tony Campolo

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness. — Agatha Christie

People suffering nervous breakdowns often do a lot of research, to find explanations for what they are undergoing. the research, of course fails. — Philip K. Dick

Don't let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The past has no wholeness, it has been etiolated by revised explanations of it, trampled over by hindsight - all their lives. — Nadine Gordimer

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations. — Benjamin Disraeli

That's the way of all good explanations. The better they are, the more questions they raise. — John Brockman

Any philosophy is a sacrilege against creation. It just gives people the kinds of explanations that they want to hear. — Sadghuru

Explanations are ghosts of guilt, shadows of sympathy, and I have no use for them. — Jessica Dawson

A great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness. — Agatha Christie

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind. — Rabindranath Tagore

Give your children big truths they will grow into rather than light explanations they will grow out of. — Tedd Tripp

At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets. — Steve Maraboli

I've heard enough Potter explanations throughout the years to know the general shape of them, anyway. — G. Norman Lippert

Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear. — Stephen King

Poverty is not always because of the decisions of the poor but there could be higher explanations for it. — Oliver G. Hill

For explanations, they did not look in the pages of the visitor's book to see if others likewise found that ghostly happenings abound. — Eric Russell

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena. — Michael Shermer

Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime. — Olavo De Carvalho

It was a bunch of explanations but not an excuse. The bottom line is that no matter why I did the things I did, I always had a choice in doing them. — Jana Deleon

Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history. — John Shelby Spong

A Warrior of the Light knows what he wants. And he has no need to waste time on explanations. — Paulo Coelho