Explanation Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.