A Quote by John Irving

What a phrase that is: 'that explains everything!' I know better than to think anything 'explains everything' today.

John Irving

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John Irving
American - Novelist
Born: March 2, 1942

physics explains everything, which we know because anything physics cannot explain does not exist, which we know because whatever exists must be explicable by physics, which we know because physics explains everything. There is something here of the mystical.

David Bentley Hart

Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.

Marianne Moore

Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.

Marianne Moore

A theory that explains everything, explains nothing

Karl Popper

I just thought of a great theory that explains everything. When I went to that party, I was abducted by aliens. They have created a fake Earth and fake high school to study me and my reactions. This certainly explains cafeteria food.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

Chris Bangle

I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything.

Andrew Solomon

People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.

Ernest Gellner

Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary and appalling suffering on innocent human beings. This explains why Christians like yourself expend more "moral" energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide. It explains why you are more concerned about human embryos than about the lifesaving promise of stem-cell research. And it explains why you can preach against condom use in sub-Saharan Africa while millions die from AIDS there each year. (25)

Sam Harris

Most man can think no better than a child! This fact perfectly explains why there are so many funny beliefs!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution. I would say, based on the little I know, Darwinism explains microevolution within species quite well. As to its broader consequence and implications, I don't think it explains individual species evolution at all well.

Ben Stein

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

Adeo Ressi

Our present culture may be largely shaped by this strange idea of isolating children's thought from adult thought. Perhaps the way our culture educates its children better explains why most of us come out as dumb as they do, than it explains how some of us come out as smart as they do.

Marvin Minsky

Maybe the best we can hope for is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing, that we’re born out of love, and not science. That biology explains the how, but love explains the why

Shane Koyczan

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

John McCarthy

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