
Legitimation of Belief (1974), p. 99
Source: Just a Theory: Exploring the Nature of Science (2005), Chapter 2, “Just a Theory: What Scientists Do” (p. 39)
Legitimation of Belief (1974), p. 99
“Paradoxes explain everything. Since they do, they cannot be explained.”
Volume 1, Ch. 9
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001)
“There is nothing in his (of Mario Bardi) painting which Sicily cannot explain.”
Non c'è niente nella sua pittura che la Sicilia non possa spiegare.
"Storia dell'arte in Sicilia: Mario Bardi", volume 2 (1984), Palermo: Edizioni del Sole (ed.) p. 243 " https://books.google.it/books?id=ntfpAAAAMAAJ"(in Italian).
Source: Just a Theory: Exploring the Nature of Science (2005), Chapter 2, “Just a Theory: What Scientists Do” (p. 24)
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Context: Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future. If I can be firm enough to-day to do right, and scorn eyes, I must have done so much right before as to defend me now. Be it how it will, do right now. Always scorn appearances, and you always may. The force of character is cumulative.
“Agree with everything, explain nothing, then do what is best for you.”
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
“I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.”
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1900s