Explanations

Sing the melody line you hear in your own head. Remember, you don't owe anybody any explanations, you don't owe your parents any explanations, you don't owe your professors any explanations.

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The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

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A prediction, or any assertion, that cannot be defended might still be true, but an explanation that cannot be defended is not an explanation.

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Dionysus: He who believes needs no explanation.Dionysus: Much worth, but not worth telling you, it seems.

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But as our explanation will be more brief than one broken in upon by words of wonder, regret, and affection, we will proceed to it ; holding that explanation, like advice, should be of all convenient shortness.

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Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.

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There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.

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Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.

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Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough—as most wrong theories are!

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Paradoxes explain everything. Since they do, they cannot be explained.

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