Quotes for All
I kind of think that if you show conspiracy theorists a photo of the dead Bin Laden they will come up with an explanation for why it’s really a Photoshoped picture of Bin Laden asleep. Or his dead cousin Fred. Donald Trump apparently believes that Bin Laden is dead, so that ought to be enough … Read more
Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. Appearances suggest the contrary, but there are easy explanations. Music can be used to stimulate mass emotion, while mathematics cannot; and musical incapacity is recognized (no … Read more
The news is challenging right now. One hard thing about it is that often things don’t lend themselves to good explanations or we don’t have enough information. So we are sometimes in pretty murky waters, as everyone is. But it’s an era where people’s anxiety about what’s going on and need to understand what’s happening … Read more
He who believes needs no explanation. Euripides
The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it. Eugene Wigner
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. Eugene Ionesco
An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation. Ethel Mumford
Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good. Erykah Badu
I’m not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school. Erykah Badu
I’ve always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin. Errol Morris