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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
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Mastery
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I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.
Seth Lloyd
Universe
Complex
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Computational
Investigate
Merely
Also
Scientific
Metaphor
Explanation
Capacity
Reasonable
Why
Here
Suggest
Basis
Program
From the point of view of many scientists, gods represent an explanation for the unknown. Scientists are focused on trying to understand the unknown, so there is a fundamental conflict. That said, some scientists find religion useful and perhaps even fulfilling.
Stanley B. Prusiner
Religion
Conflict
Unknown
Focused
Find
Some
Point
Point Of View
Perhaps
Understand
Said
Scientists
Trying
Gods
Represent
Explanation
Fulfilling
View
Useful
Many
Even
Fundamental
Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.
Steven Pinker
Today
Mind
Phobia
Genetics
Most
Intellectuals
Any
Explanation
Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.
Steven Pinker
Our
Evolution
Component
Indispensable
Any
Psychology
Explanation
Satisfying
There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities.
Steven Pinker
Possibilities
Correlation
Economic
Clear
Between
Inequality
Personal
Explanation
Violence
Number
Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That's the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.
Taylor Swift
Alone
Me
You
People
Feeling
Singing
Way
Would
Find
See
About
Someone
Something
Only
Feel
Come
Sing
Crying
Makes
Bedroom
Person
Sitting
Want
Explanation
Really
Why
Floor
Bonded
Beyond a power play by the oil industry, there is no conceivable explanation for barring courts within any state from considering cases related to oil leases and energy production off its own coastlines.
Ted Deutch
Power
Own
Energy
Related
State
Considering
Cases
Beyond
Industry
Within
Courts
Off
Any
Oil
Oil Industry
Explanation
Energy Production
Production
Play
I'm trained in science, believe in logic, and like to think there's an explanation for everything. And I'm truly not really at ease with other people.
Tess Gerritsen
Science
People
Believe
Think
Other
Everything
Ease
Logic
Like
Truly
Trained
Explanation
Really
I think humans have always felt watched back by whatever is out there flickering in the distance. What excites me is what the imagination creates, not simply in explanation of what is there but also to explain or justify the feeling of awe and attachment that the heavens inspire.
Tracy K. Smith
Me
Inspire
Feeling
Whatever
Think
Imagination
Back
Distance
Out
Attachment
Simply
Excites
Also
Felt
Always
Heavens
Explain
Justify
Explanation
Creates
Flickering
Awe
Watched
Humans
I certainly enjoy going on stage and lecturing and talking to Congress. That's a personality explanation. And given government proposals, I thought I had a clear view that they were antagonistic to human freedom.
Whitfield Diffie
Government
Freedom
Personality
Thought
Stage
Congress
Enjoy
Given
Proposals
Had
Clear
Talking
Antagonistic
Were
Lecturing
Going
Human
Explanation
Human Freedom
View
Certainly
What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
William Godwin
Love
Parent
More
Clear
Sound
His
Than
Child
Explanation
In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.
William Robertson Smith
Religion
People
Precepts
Rules
Religions
Only
Ritual
Sacred
Mythology
Priests
Takes
Dogma
Lore
Antique
Offered
Afford
Stories
Place
Explanation
Prescribed
But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.
William Robertson Smith
Be True
Myth
Sense
Every
Philosophy
Arbitrary
Religious
Allegorical
Ritual
Facts
True
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Categories
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Sought
Itself
Common
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Common Sense
Explained
Custom
Explanation
Requires
Actual
I am extremely proud of my heritage, and I would never use being Dutch as an excuse but rather an explanation of our cultural differences.
Yolanda Hadid
Differences
Heritage
Our
Extremely
Would
Rather
Never
Excuse
Proud
Am
Cultural
Dutch
Being
Explanation
Use
Young people, those who think they're experts in science, there's no doubt. They just believe it, and so there has to be an explanation - and whatever man is doing has caused the jet stream to slow down, and that is permitting the polar vortex.
Rush Limbaugh
Man
Science
People
Stream
Slow
Whatever
Young
Doubt
Down
Believe
Think
Jet
Those
No Doubt
Polar
Vortex
Doing
Caused
Just
Experts
Young People
Explanation
Who
I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist.
Dinesh D'Souza
Father
Believe
I Believe
Obama
I Believe The
He
Like
Most
His
Just
Explanation
Actions
Compelling
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