Explanation Quotes

903 Explanation quotes by 703 unique authors

Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions having… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing;… — Aristotle
The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man… — Benjamin Haydon
We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good explanation of the ultimate… — Daniel Dennett
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without… — Alan Lightman
There are no explanations, there are no answers. — Jessica Lange
There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive… — Eben Alexander
I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly… — Eben Alexander
Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good. — Erykah Badu
Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted. — Michael Behe
I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for… — Rob Bell
The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level… — David Deutsch
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests. — David Deutsch
Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them. — David Deutsch
Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests. — David Deutsch
Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to them… — Emma Donoghue
De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at the end of… — W. W. Rouse Ball
You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations. — Baltasar Gracian
It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next. — Oscar Wilde
A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom. — Little Richard
Baby, your nothing but too much trouble. Gotta bury this love and bury the shovel. — Clay Walker
Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still… — Al Yankovic
From the three, you then use one to make eight ones. You add those ones to the three, and you get one-three base eight, or,… — Tom Lehrer
He's watching me watching you watching him watching me watching him watching. — Jethro Tull
I am, I cried. I am, I said. And I am lost. — Neil Diamond

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