Explanation Quotes

903 Explanation quotes by 703 unique authors

From the point of view of many scientists, gods represent an explanation for the unknown. Scientists are focused on trying to understand the unknown, so… — Stanley B. Prusiner
The Scientific Revolution, that remarkable transformation of European thought that occurred between approximately 1550 and 1700, brought with it an ascendancy of the experimental method… — Sherwin B. Nuland
We have a media that presents every politician as being as bad as the next. There is no distinguishing between one good idea or another;… — David Blunkett
Along with my colleagues Mark Warner and Sheldon Whitehouse, I have been working to end the process of secret holds, which is when senators anonymously… — Claire McCaskill
We work for the public, and I believe that if a senator wants to block a piece of legislation or a nominee, they owe the… — Claire McCaskill
I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character or to promote… — Elie Ducommun
When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or reproductive success. — Robin Marantz Henig
I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they did. Writing about these things… — Henry Petroski
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… — Hamid Karzai
But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation… — William Robertson Smith
My explanation remains the same: It was an attempt to make the point that anyone who opposed the war can achieve their objective by working… — James P Moran
I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came back to specialize in constitutional law where history is so… — Frank Scott
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… — David Kay
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… — E. P. Thompson
The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms. — Angelus Silesius
And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation? — Julio Cortazar
I believe I am entitled to a public explanation. — Richard Jewell
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in… — Oscar Wilde
That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary. — Unknown Author
Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the… — Oscar Wilde

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