Top 18 Explanatory Power Quotes
#1. But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of a theory - such things as truth, or probability, or explanatory power - could not possibly be among the reasons for its currency.
David Stove
#2. Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are they always metaphors; they do not say this is that, they say this is.
Robert Hass
#3. mechanical reinterpretations of human affairs not only lack explanatory power, they are morally wrong as well, for in effect they deny the humanity of the participants, casting them and their ideas merely as side effects of the landscape. Diamond
David Deutsch
#4. We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create.
Ian Hacking
#5. Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise.
Norman Macbeth
#6. Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.
Sigmund Freud
#7. Israel will not discuss a peace involving the concession of any piece of territory. The neighboring states do not deserve an inch of Israel's land ... We are ready for exchange for peace.
David Ben-Gurion
#8. I think I'm predominantly known for my portraits. Obviously in my work there are landscape or stilllife elements, but mainly my work is people ...
Ari Marcopoulos
#9. The Advent season is a season of waiting, but our whole life is an Advent season, that is, a season of waiting for the last Advent, for the time when there will be a new heaven and a new earth.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#10. The secret to my own happiness, my own good future, is within my own hands. I must not miss that opportunity!
Dalai Lama XIV
#11. Oh man, I'm about to be in a hot man sandwich and I want to stay there, oh yes I do.
Bella Jewel
#12. Civilization is communication," the doctor said. "That which is not expressed doesn't exist.
Haruki Murakami
#14. If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#15. How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#16. Everybody has their secrets; everybody has their dark side.
Demitria Lunetta
#17. It is my first lesson in the cabalistic power of "secret intelligence": two words that can make otherwise sane men abandon their reason and cavort like idiots.
Robert Harris
#18. The urge to jump up and go to him was so strong that she grabbed the stool she was sitting on with both hands and clutched the rough wood with all her might.
Melanie Dickerson
