Explanation Quote by Lincoln Child Download Open image “The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.” — Lincoln Child ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Explanation Simplest
Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones. — William of Ockham Copy Share Image
Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The hallmark of a deep explanation is that it answers more than you ask — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences. — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
“All this time, he’d been thinking in two dimensions…forgetting that there was also a Z axis to be considered.” — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many… — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
“Admiral Spartan thinks that the object must be exposed and penetrated with all possible speed.” — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact. — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
“And so, ladies and gentlemen, you can take as fact the four words I’m about to speak—though I speak them with some regret, since… — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you. — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory… — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine. — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
“Perhaps some day it will be pleasant to remember even this.’ ” Mykolos” — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for… — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
“EFG 112-A. PATENT 4,125,662. WAREHAM ELECTRIC COMPANY, BOSTON. TOLERANCES 1–20 MG, .1–15 MT. “ ‘mG,’ ” Logan read aloud. “Do you suppose that’s milligauss?” “I think… — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation. — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
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… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not. — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
In his anti-Darwinian book... (and eponymously named The Neck of the Giraffe ), Francis Hitching tells the story... "The need to survive by reaching… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] will spend long periods of time explaining to people why he won't use it. At the end of the explanation, nobody knows… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but I'm not… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image