Explanation Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

— Ernest Hemingway

Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at all; they…

— Norman Macbeth

Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any…

— John Desmond Bernal

If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all.

— Massimo Pigliucci

The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.

— Richard Dawkins

A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not…

— William James

There are alternate explanations for everything.

— James Cook

No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.

— William Beveridge

You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it.

— Christopher Monckton

That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make…

— Esther Hicks

Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.

— Marilyn vos Savant