Explanations Quotes

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

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.

To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

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.

I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right.

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

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.

The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

When my daughter asks, 'What do you do?', every movie I have a different answer. As she grows, she wants more explanations.

Children need explanations and they deserve explanations.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.

And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.

A key issue in developmental biology at that time was the problem of how cells underwent differentiation, with most workers concentrating on explanations in terms of changes in enzyme and gene regulation.

There are no explanations, there are no answers.

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.