Explanation Quotes

903 Explanation quotes by 703 unique authors

Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes. He has perhaps… — Alfred North Whitehead
Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation to the descriptive… — Akira Kurosawa
Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held, a nice way… — Robert Nozick
Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth,… — John Fowles
The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation. — Dale Carnegie
London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation. — Ernest Hemingway
In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. — Louise Wilder
In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Each within his green enclosure is a creator, and no two… — Louise Wilder
In one's garden a person may be one's own artist without apology or explanation. Here is one spot where each may experience the romance of… — Louise Wilder
Strings of coincidence can strengthen us in the determination to follow our deepest intuitions even when they run counter to conventional wisdom and logic and… — Robert Moss
Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at all; they are… — Norman Macbeth
It seems to me that the term 'free will' is one of the most manipulated and exploited terms. The real explanation of free will is… — Torkom Saraydarian
In those same decades, most UFO sightings were made in the daytime and frequently at close range, when shapes and surface features could be distinguished,… — Don Berliner
There is, of course, great value in belonging to a group. Safety in numbers, for one. But there is also a mathematical explanation for why… — Gregory Berns
We need to raise the level of our game in terms of explaining the planetary warming by infrared absorption of CO2 etc. The missing area… — Unknown Author
Love is a sickness. Some kind of a pathogen existing above all explanation. — Craig Davidson
With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one. — William of Ockham
The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct. — William of Ockham
Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones. — William of Ockham

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