Explanation Quotes

903 Explanation quotes by 703 unique authors

Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime. — Olavo de Carvalho
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation. — Tom Stoppard
It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of… — Thomas Jefferson
It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but if it looks… — Richard Dawkins
There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully accept that you do not know, you give up struggling to find answers… — Eckhart Tolle
Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst… — Stephen R. Donaldson
We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by… — Hazel Scott
There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. — Frank A. Clark
Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no… — Carlos Castaneda
In considering God's power, we must not look for a God of the Gaps, a god who is called in for those phenomena for which… — Nevill Francis Mott
Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own research work. Train… — Irving Langmuir
You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real life, and which… — Rosalind Franklin
In a word, I consider hospitals only as the entrance to scientific medicine; they are the first field of observation which a physician enters; but… — Claude Bernard
Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject my theory. — Charles Darwin
If history is any guide at all, it seems to me to suggest that there is a final theory. In this century we have seen… — Steven Weinberg
When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation… — Epicurus
I open each class with an explanation of the singular importance of being a "dealmaker." The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable. — Tim Ferriss
The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties by… — Isaac Newton
Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces of nature from… — Isaac Newton
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely… — Richard Dawkins
A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand… — Richard Dawkins
Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations and blinds them… — Richard Dawkins
Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important. — Christopher Hitchens

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