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“When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.”

Two Artist Fit Explanation Two Things Scrap

Book:Calder: Sculptor of Air

Source: Calder: Sculptor of Air

“Under my definition, a scientific theory is a proposed explanation which focuses or points to physical, observable data and logical inferences. There are many things throughout the history of science which we now think to be incorrect which nonetheless would fit that which would fit that definition. Yes, astrology is in fact one.”

Thinking Facts Theory Fit Definitions Data Explanation Logical Astrology Inference History Of Science Scientific Theory

Author:Michael Behe

“I'm a reasonable kind of guy. If I hear something that seems to make sense, I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. If the alternative explanation has to be pounded into shape before it fits the mould of our experience, it seems to me that it's unlikely to be true.”

Ifs Giving Kind Seems Guy Doubt Willing Fit Shapes Benefits Being True Alternatives Make Sense Explanation Reasonable Unlikely Mould Benefit Of The Doubt

Author:Frank Schatzing

“Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications - in order to hide one's motives, not just from others, but primarily from oneself. The price of rationalizing is the hampering, the distortion, and, ultimately, the destruction of one's cognitive faculty. Rationalization is a process not of perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one's emotions.”

Giving Reality Order Process Emotion Identity Fit Destruction Oneself Explanation Motive Faculty Justification Providing Attempting Distortion Cognitive Cover Ups

Book:Philosophy: Who Needs It

Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It

“The idea of men's receiving an intimation of their connection with the world around them through an immediate feeling which is from the outset directed to that purpose sounds so strange and fits in so badly with the fabric of our psychology that one is justified in attempting to discover a psycho-analytic - that is, a genetic - explanation of such a feeling.”

Men World Ideas Feelings Purpose Sound Psychology Strange Fit Connections Explanation Receiving Fabric Justified Attempting Psycho Analytics

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“Even in chimps there is true altruistic behaviour; behaviour that doesn't fit into the sociobiological model that says you either help a close relative and thereby your own genes, or you help somebody else now in return for their help in the future. When a very high-ranking male chimpanzee rescues a little orphan, saving his life, that kind of explanation doesn't work.”

Kind Littles Helping Return Fit Models Males Saving Explanation Relative Genes Rescue Behaviour Orphan Chimpanzees Ranking

Author:Jane Goodall

“Physicists have come up with other explanations. One is to say that these six constants are not free to vary. Some unified theory will eventually show that they are as locked in as the circumference and the diameter of a circle. That reduces the odds of them all independently just happening to fit the bill.”

Shows Theory Fit Six Happenings Bills Come Up Circles Explanation Locked Odds Physicist Vary Unified

Author:Richard Dawkins

“There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it happened, or why it ends, or why or who you are. You want one and I want one, but there isn't one. It comes in bits and pieces, and you stitch them together wherever they fit, and when you are done you hold yourself up, and still there are holes and you are a rag doll, invented, imperfect. And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.”

Way Want Stills Ends Done Enough Together Bits Pieces Happened Fit Who You Are Holes Explanation Revelations Imperfect Dolls Rags Tidy Stitches Bits And Pieces

Author:Marya Hornbacher