Explanation Quotes

Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst qualities of the parents.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.

Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.

There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience.

Parade your pallor in iniquity.

A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand the same kind of explanation in his own right.

You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?

The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational explanation).

The patient needs an experience, not an explanation.

To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic. Proposals about that have been all over the map.

I am, I cried. I am, I said. And I am lost.

As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation.

The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.

Probably the best explanation for my success and other Internet writers, is that we're tapping a genre or a niche out there that needs to be filled and isn't.

Donald Trump has been getting favorable comments from white supremacists, from American Nazis. And any explanation of Donald Trump's rise that does not include those facts is a false analysis.

I'm just an old maid with an attraction to men.

In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.

To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy.

Listen to me, don't listen to me. Talk to me, don't talk to me.

You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain't what you're not. So see what you got?

I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

I see the light in your smile.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, take out the TCP.

Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].

If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.

There are alternate explanations for everything.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

A psychological explanation of our feelings is not a moral explanation of our conduct.

The fact that many things have no explanation ought to prevent them from happening; but it doesn't.

It is a presumption on the part of man when he demands in words an explanation of God.

There is another kind of altruism that seems to go beyond that, a kind of super-altruism, which humans appear to have. And I think that does need a Darwinian explanation.

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.

Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.

Preaching for life changes requires far less information and more application. Less explanation and more inspiration.

Human nature is a scoundrel's favorite explanation.

The only explanation on what's happened today is my opponent was better than me.

My uncle used to love me, but she died.

Life is bigger than our explanations of it. To be in touch with life, go beyond your explanations.

I am not denying anything I did not say.

An alternate explanation is not a refutation.

To yearn for a single, and usually simple, explanation of the chaotic materials of the past, to search for a single thread in that most tangled of all skeins, is a sign of immaturity.

Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!

A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory.

Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.

Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.

It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of creation or unity of design, etc., and to think that we give an explanation when we only restate a fact.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.