Explanation Quotes

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.

In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.

Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator.

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation.

And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclusions that would fit the political agenda of one or another administration. I deeply think that is a wrong explanation.

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

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

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

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.

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

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

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.

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

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.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

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.

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.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

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.

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.