Explanation Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.