Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“I want an explanation!” “I’ll give you one,” Maxine said: “You’re crazy.” — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Evolution is a fact. It is the best explanation of what is known from observations. It's a theory as powerful as the… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
“I like her explanation better than just being a diminutive of someone else.” — Thalia Chaltas Copy Share Image
A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit. — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
I have no decision-making role at all in my job description. I would have liked an explanation as to why I was… — Mookie Wilson Copy Share Image
“I like you but you mightn't feel the same way about me, and I wouldn't blame you. To save us both from… — Bill Condon Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago many chemists would have defended the theory of bond arms as a satisfactory explanation because they had become accustomed… — Henry Margenau Copy Share Image
I certainly enjoy going on stage and lecturing and talking to Congress. That's a personality explanation. And given government proposals, I thought… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything,… — Duncan J. Watts Copy Share Image
Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
Try to live with the same intensity as a child. He doesn't ask for explanations; he dives into each day as if… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Define self-awareness and tell me what it is about it that requires something more than a material explanation. I do not accept… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
“From the structure of language comes the explanation of why the human spirit is condemned to an odyssey - why it first… — Jürgen Habermas Copy Share Image
After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even know the… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real… — Rosalind Franklin Copy Share Image
For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
There are good reasons why natural selection has become widely accepted as an explanation of evolutionary development. When applied to mammals and… — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. The superficial explanation is that a government resting upon popular suffrage cannot… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Yesterday, today was tomorrow. And tomorrow, today will be yesterday. — George Harrison Copy Share Image