Explanation Quotes

903 Explanation quotes by 703 unique authors

The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it… — Henry M. Morris
If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate. — Lou Holtz
The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only… — Unknown Author
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time. — George Iles
With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning. — Guy Debord
Has the word propitiation any place in your Christianity?Â In the faithÂ of the New Testament it is central.Â The love of God, the taking… — J I Packer
Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history [do] not know… — Gerda Lerner
The simplest explanation is most often the correct one. — Lincoln Child
I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual which cannot be… — Augustus De Morgan
Introverts keep their best stuff insideâ€”that is, until it is ready. And this drives extroverts crazy! The explanation for the introvertâ€™s behaviorâ€”and there must be… — Laurie Helgoe
And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations… — Michael Polanyi
A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical modes of reasoning.… — Gilbert N. Lewis
If alpha [the fine-structure constant] were bigger than it really is, we should not be able to distinguish matter from ether [the vacuum, nothingness], and… — Max Born
It from Bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom an immaterial source and explanation... that all things physical… — John Archibald Wheeler
The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and… — Paul Dirac
We like t'believe that everything's got an explanation...that our years on this earth make a safe kinda sense. We build ourselves up with explantions and… — Jonathan Kent
As time passed I became an avid reader of popular scientific books, wanting to know as much as I could about the world in which… — Vine Deloria, Jr.
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient… — Jack Vance
Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces. — Gunnar Myrdal
Explanations are a substitute for trust. — Tullian Tchividjian

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