Top Explanation Quotes
I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
Don DeLillo
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
Charles Darwin
The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
Thomas Sowell
The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator.
Henry M. Morris
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
Mary Wollstonecraft
David Herbert Lawrence 
Galileo Galilei 
Robert Foster Bennett 
William Godwin 
Carrie Fisher 
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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
Don DeLillo 
80% of people like this quote
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
Charles Darwin
63% of people like this quote
The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
Thomas Sowell
60% of people like this quote
The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator.
Henry M. Morris
59% of people like this quote
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
Mary Wollstonecraft
57% of people like this quote
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
David Herbert Lawrence
57% of people like this quote
What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
William Godwin
56% of people like this quote
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