Explanation Quotes

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.

Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.

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.

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

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.

And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.

I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came back to specialize in constitutional law where history is so essentially a part and an explanation of much that exists, the two disciplines blended very well.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.