Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps Quotes
So, in the physical world mankind are prone to seek an explanation of uncommon phenomena only, while the ordinary changes of nature, which are in themselves equally wonderful, are disregarded.
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People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing – but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.
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The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.
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A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.
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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.
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Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.
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The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in the room. If you want to totally misunderstand why something is supposedly important, find the biggest fan of that particular thing and ask him for an explanation. He will tell you everything that doesn't matter to anyone who isn't him. He will describe paradoxical details and share deeply personal anecdotes, and it will all be autobiography; he will simply be explaining who he is by discussing something completely unrelated to his life.
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A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the class and mumble explanations of blackboard problems. He was "let out" at the end of two years because students refused to attend his classes. He was given an evasive reason for his dismissal and he left with justifiable bitterness toward the administration. If someone had told him the truth he could have avoided this denouement. Sometimes professors go on for years without any conception of remediable faults which irritate their listeners.
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As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.
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Presumably it's related to the fact this was so close. We may be seeing phenomena we can't see for the (bursts) that are 100 times more distant. We'll be trying to figure out that puzzle for the next days and weeks.
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There isnt always an explanation for everything.
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Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.
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Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.
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He who believes needs no explanation.
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Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.
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However we select from nature a complex of phenomena using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn out to be forever appropriate (sufficient).... I do not doubt that the day will come when general relativity, too, will have to yield to another one, for reasons which at present we do not yet surmise. I believe that this process of deepening theory has no limits.
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The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.
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For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.
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We stand at the end of the Age of Reason. A new era of the magical explanation of the world is rising.
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There is synthesis when, in combining therein judgments that are made known to us from simpler relations, one deduces judgments from them relative to more complicated relations. There is analysis when from a complicated truth one deduces more simple truths.
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The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind.
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It is moreover to weaken in those who profess this Religion a pious confidence in its innate excellence and the patronage of its Author; and to foster in those who still reject it, a suspicion that its friends are too conscious of its fallacies to trust it to its own merits.
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Ever see a hot shot hit, kid? I saw the Gimp catch one in Philly. We rigged his room with a one-way whorehouse mirror and charged a sawski to watch it. He never got the needle out of his arm. They don't if the shot is right. That's the way they find them, dropper full of clotted blood hanging out of a blue arm. The look in his eyes when it hit --- Kid, it was tasty.
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So, in the physical world mankind are prone to seek an explanation of uncommon phenomena only, while the ordinary changes of nature, which are in themselves equally wonderful, are disregarded.
