A Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Only describe, don't explain.
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There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.
To describe and explain my ideas is to lose them.
The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.
Darwinism doesn't explain where gravity comes from. It doesn't explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn't explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn't explain where matter came from.
Darwinism doesn't explain where gravity comes from. It doesn't explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn't explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn't explain where matter comes from.
It will be as well, I think, to explain these locutions of God, and to describe what the soul feels when it receives them.
The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be. If you have a theory , you must try to explain what's good and what's bad about it equally. In science, you learn a kind of standard integrity and honesty .
It's one of the greatest sporting environments you can be in, the first morning of an Ashes series. It's hard to explain, you can only really explain it when you're out there. It's awesome.
To describe this world is not to describe reality 'in itself', as it is independently of how we regard and describe it.
How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves
To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.
Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility.
I woke up in London one morning in the middle of an adrenaline surge, and I was just lying there - the sun was coming up - trying to think of the best way to describe this feeling, and 'pang' was the only word I could really use to describe it.
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