Explanation Quotes

903 Explanation quotes by 703 unique authors

Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post. — Albert Einstein
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Is the divine presence a Republican? Or is He/She/It running an inter-galactic fossil fuel conglomerate?...whatever the explanation may be, the Paraclete appears to be as… — George Monbiot
It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest...The explanation… — Robert M. Pirsig
There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will be able to… — Elwyn Brooks White
Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as to make analysis… — Elizabeth Bowen
Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them… — Robert Adams
One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving. — David Perkins
There's a difference between a mystery and a question. Questions demand answers, but a mystery demands something more valuable-explanation. — Robert Cialdini
Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe. — Albert Schweitzer
Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we… — W. Somerset Maugham
We tolerate, even promote, many things we once regarded as evil, wrong, or immoral. And then we seek "explanations" for an act that seems beyond… — Cal Thomas
To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction one or more… — Karl Popper
[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task of… — Karl Popper
Variable behaviour of the sun is an obvious explanation, and there is increasing evidence that Earth's climate responds to changing patterns of solarmagnetic activity. ...… — Unknown Author
It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must plainly… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases-perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies-for which there is no… — Margaret Mead
What could me more plausible than a line of reasoning which argues that the explanation of the origin of a system was to achieve an… — Immanuel Wallerstein
It just takes the faith of a little seed to make a way through what might to be impossibility, and the ability will match the… — Josh Garrels

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