Explanation Quote by Marilynne Robinson

“An overly complex explanation began with an unsophisticated assumption.”

— Rick Delmonico

“I wonder if the explanation is even more complex than we imagine at present.”

— Vera C. Rubin

“Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.”

— H.L. Mencken

“At least descriptive psychology is probably, taken as a whole, a form of anthropomorphism, a nibbling at our own limits.”

— Franz Kafka

“The only reason I'm writing this down is to show how human reason, even very sharp and exact human reason, can get crazily confused…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Do not always assume motive where human error will suffice.”

— Olen Steinhauer

“Sometimes there's no real explanation, no justification for things that happen.”

— Deirdre Gould

“Now, why is it that the idea of intention keeps turning up in explanations of adaptation, intruding even into ones where it is supposed…

— David C. Stove

“Do not give explanation to anyone, everyone understands only what they want to understand.”

— Nitin Namdeo

“The only coherent explanation of contingent intentionality is the existence of some necessary being, an agent from whom all other intentionality derives but who…

— Angus Menuge

“Every human behavior can be explained by what precedes it, but that does not excuse it,”

— Gavin de Becker

“We are complex creatures with simple minds existing in a confusing world.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller