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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
Impossible
Evolutionary
Only
Supernatural
Divine
Nevertheless
Involving
Although
Prove
Scientifically
Test
Either
Which
Explanation
Naturalistic
Element
Creator
Origins
Basis
Defended
The most likely explanation is the most practical. 'Macbeth' is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of 'Macbeth'. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.
Ian Mckellen
Great
You
Macbeth
Out
Easy
Exciting
Most
Likely
Practical
Attracts
Understand
Audiences
Sell
Very
Mount
Short
Just
Want
Theater
Explanation
Production
Acting
Popular
Play
My explanation remains the same: It was an attempt to make the point that anyone who opposed the war can achieve their objective by working within their sphere of influence, whether their political party or community of faith.
Jim Moran
War
Faith
Political
Achieve
Party
Community
Sphere
Objective
Point
Remains
Attempt
Make
Within
Opposed
Political Party
Same
Influence
Anyone
Whether
Explanation
Working
Who
Tony Awards boost Broadway attendance and sell the shows on the road. They're the sugar to swat the fly. If you needed more explanation for the yearly ballyhoo, in the metropolitan areas where a Broadway show plays, the local economy is boosted by three and a half times the gross ticket sales. So when we're talking Tonys, we're talking moolah.
John Lahr
You
Fly
Three
Half
Sugar
Local
Broadway
Broadway Show
Boost
More
Area
Road
Attendance
Economy
Ticket
Talking
Yearly
Sales
Metropolitan
Sell
Times
Where
Explanation
Gross
Show
Shows
Awards
Needed
Plays
Tony
Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act.
John Podhoretz
Sector
Must
Obama
Hurting
Economic
Economic Growth
Step
Where
Public
Explanation
Act
Public Sector
Washington
Growth
I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.
John Sladek
Science
World
Sense
Way
Out
Kind
One-Way
Like
Science Fiction
Making
Goes
Fiction
Senseless
Which
Explanation
Standard
Why
Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
Lafcadio Hearn
Life
Man
Marriage
Simple
Important
Everything
Fact
Most
Course
America
Depends
The Most Important
Explanation
Act
Europe
The normative theoretical claim that a higher stage is philosophically a better stage is one necessary part of a psychological explanation of sequential stage movement.
Lawrence Kohlberg
Better
Stage
Philosophically
Claim
Higher
Part
Movement
Psychological
Explanation
Theoretical
Necessary
The curious thing about the Ready-Made is that I've never been able to arrive at a definition or explanation that fully satisfies me. There's still magic in the idea, so I'd rather keep it that way than try to be exoteric about it.
Marcel Duchamp
Me
Try
Way
Definition
Able
Magic
About
Rather
Never
Idea
Ready-Made
Still
Arrive
Been
Than
Curious
Explanation
Fully
Keep
Satisfies
Thing
Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent.
Mark Thomas
People
Wait
Innocent
Crime
Thought
Year
Strikes
Carried
Perfectly
Idea
Got
Occur
Pre-Emptive
Get
Maybe
Just
Explanation
Reasonable
Away
Actual
Last
A lot of the lyrics I write involve images that just swing the song in a way that feels really good to me and there isn't a literal explanation. They're not riddles for the listener to solve.
Matt Berninger
Good
Me
Song
Lyrics
Way
Solve
Write
Feels
Involve
Lot
Listener
Just
Literal
Explanation
Really
Riddles
Swing
Images
Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.
Max Weber
Value
Judgment
Analysis
Absolutely
Absolutely Not
Causal
Provides
Explanation
People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.
Nancy Kerrigan
Me
People
Other
Would
Always
Doing
Just
Skate
Loved
Explanation
Them
Ask
Why
Gaming is our cultural bogeyman - we blame it for everything from child obesity to violence to short attention spans. But any explanation that fits every situation ultimately explains nothing.
Naomi Alderman
Blame
Situation
Nothing
Every
Our
Everything
Obesity
Attention
Attention Spans
Cultural
Ultimately
Fits
Child
Any
Short
Explains
Spans
Explanation
Gaming
Violence
If you step back a little and say we want to do A.I., then you will realize that A.I. needs knowledge, reasoning, and explanation.
Oren Etzioni
Needs
Knowledge
You
Will
Back
Say
Step
Want
Little
Explanation
Realize
Then
Reasoning
I don't doubt that the explanation for consciousness will arise from the mercilessly scientific account of psychology and neuroscience, but, still, isn't it neat that the universe is such that it gave rise to conscious beings like you and me?
Paul Bloom
Me
You
Will
Doubt
Universe
Gave
Rise
Neuroscience
Arise
Like
Scientific
Still
Account
Psychology
Explanation
Beings
Conscious
Neat
Consciousness
Astonishingly, in spite of decades of research, there is no agreed theory of cancer, no explanation for why, inside almost all healthy cells, there lurks a highly efficient cancer subroutine that can be activated by a variety of agents - radiation, chemicals, inflammation and infection.
Paul Davies
Cancer
Healthy
Research
Inside
Variety
Spite
Almost
Almost All
Highly
Chemicals
Infection
Efficient
Decades
Cells
Explanation
Agents
Radiation
Theory
Agreed
Why
Lurks
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.
Paul Ricoeur
History
World
Myth
Else
Destiny
Something
Something Else
Than
Explanation
I've talked to a lot of artists - painters, writers, musicians - many of whom have had great ideas on trains. The only explanation I have is all that stuff is coming at you while you're relaxed, so somehow it kicks you into hyperspace in terms of brain function.
Peter Gabriel
Great
You
Musicians
Kicks
Relaxed
Great Ideas
Somehow
Only
Writers
Had
Stuff
Ideas
Terms
Talked
Coming
Brain
Lot
Trains
Artists
While
Explanation
Many
Painters
Function
Whom
I believe I am entitled to a public explanation.
Richard Jewell
Entitled
Believe
Am
Public
Explanation
With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics.
Richard P. Feynman
Laws
Physicists
Exception
Known
Quantum
Ultimate
Explanation
Gravitation
Phenomena
Behavioral economics offers a plausible explanation for overreactions by the market. For example, a long period of bad performance can lead to stereotyping.
Richard Thaler
Example
Long
Economics
Market
Bad
Bad Performance
Long Period
Lead
Performance
Stereotyping
For Example
Period
Offers
Behavioral
Explanation
Plausible
I don't know - it's a bit of a mystery of how things come about when they do. I don't have a scientific explanation for it. Sometimes when you're writing a song, you don't know where you're going.
Robbie Robertson
You
Song
Writing
Sometimes
Bit
About
Mystery
Come
Know
Scientific
How
Going
Where
Explanation
Things
As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.
Ronald Blythe
Church
Bathroom
Fuss
Minimum
He
Goes
Explanation
Help
British
There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.
Russell Crowe
Bad
Tie
How
Mathematical
Explanation
Creating a clear and engaging video explanation of a complex concept is a great way to demonstrate mastery and to help others understand and love the subject, too.
Sal Khan
Love
Great
Help Others
Too
Others
Way
Complex
Clear
Concept
Great Way
Mastery
Understand
Demonstrate
Subject
Explanation
Video
Creating
Engaging
Help
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