Explanation Quotes

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We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of… — William Winwood Reade
The explanation is that prayer is not primarily God's way of getting things done. It is God's way of giving the church 'on the job… — Paul Billheimer
What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no… — Laurence Steinberg
As the idea imparted by the term Cataclysm, Catastrophe, or Revolution, is extremely vague, and may comprehend any thing you choose to imagine, it answers… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations. — Isaac Newton
I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is, however, too… — Dalai Lama
Critics should help people see for themselves; they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit that if... a… — Georges Braque
The work of a man is the explanation of the man. — Paul Gauguin
The explanation of types of structure in classes - as resulting from the will of the Deity, to create animals on certain plans - is… — Charles Darwin
Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a… — Florence Nightingale
Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the… — Ludwig von Mises
Without trying to clear up the degree of correctness of a qualification which no one, one must hope, will be asked to understand exactly, I… — Gustave Courbet
Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that… — Lafcadio Hearn
If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively,… — Nelson Goodman
I don't really have an explanation. I'm struggling myself to comprehend what has happened and find a reason for it. — Paula Radcliffe
As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age--suppressed, I suppose by the… — Mahlon Hoagland
Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's just the opposite.… — Pierre Alechinsky
We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation. — Walter Darby Bannard
Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in… — Egon Friedell
In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that… — Gerald R. Ford
The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open. — Charles Fort
With old inflation riding the headlines, I have read till I am bleary-eyed, and I can't get head from tails of the whole thing. ...… — Will Rogers
...contemporary physicists come in two varieties. Type 1 physicists are bothered by EPR and Bell's Theorem. Type 2 (the majority) are not, but one has… — David Mermin

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