Explanation Quotes

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All men who have ideals . . . live by some kind of faith, by committing themselves to some kind of loyalty which is not… — Ronald Knox
War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula — George S. Patton
The argument advanced by the supporters of the theory of hereditary transmission does not furnish a satisfactory explanation of the cause of the inequalities and… — Swami Abhedananda
You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success. — J. Richard Clarke
In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and… — Auguste Comte
It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and… — Ernest Nagel
The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of atoms is an… — August Kekule
For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false.… — Nelson Goodman
Twenty years ago many chemists would have defended the theory of bond arms as a satisfactory explanation because they had become accustomed to thinking of… — Henry Margenau
[Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as fact. That's what… — David Quammen
Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated… — Francis Maitland Balfour
I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery… — Allan Sandage
To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but… — Andre Gide
Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve a person any… — Steven Pinker
To my mind, the theory of [evolution] does not stand up at all. If living matter is not, then, caused by the interplay of atoms,… — Henry Lipson
This doctrine, that of the ghost in the machine, strictly separates the mind or soul from the body. And by doing so it takes the… — Simon Blackburn
A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation. Elephants, for instance. Once molecules have learnt to compete and to create other molecules… — Unknown Author
Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one… — James P. Hogan
Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis. — Napoleon Hill
The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith. — Unknown Author

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