Explanation Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.