Explanation Quotes

903 Explanation quotes by 703 unique authors

I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of the concepts point, straight line… — David Hilbert
I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles. — Robert Breault
Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love goes on, the love goes on, blind to laws and… — Anais Nin
The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain… — Thomas Jefferson
I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality — Harold Geneen
Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it… — Christopher Hitchens
In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth… — Alfred North Whitehead
A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots... — Carl Jung
To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life? — Robert Breault
More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any 'scientific' explanation. . .I am convinced that these… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
Regarding the air raid over Los Angeles it was learned by Army G2 that Rear Admiral Anderson...recovered an unidentified airplane off the coast of California...with… — George C. Marshall
It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of ones voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or six times a… — J. William Fulbright
An alternate explanation is not a refutation. — Greg Koukl
Learning to explain phenomena such that one continues to be fascinated by the failure of one's explanations creates a continuing cycle of thinking, that is… — Roger Schank
And this is why studying the history of psi is important.Â People have been reporting these phenomena for millennia and studying them for centuries.Â Human… — Dean Radin
I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that… — Richard Dawkins
A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to… — Richard Dawkins
The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful illusion of deliberate… — Richard Dawkins
Science offers us an explanation of how complexity (the difficult) arose out of simplicity (the easy). The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for… — Richard Dawkins
But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so… — Javier Bardem

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