Explanation Quote by Steven Moffat

An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care.

— Steven Moffat

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations'…

— A. N. Wilson

There are many aspects of time we just do not understand. That’s the thing about writing a popular book: You realize the things you…

— Lisa Randall

“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

I don't owe any explanations for anybody I'm fighting.

— Andre Ward

“Science is the process of obscuring the marvelous with explanations.”

— James Rozoff

Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.

— Olavo de Carvalho

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

But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of a theory…

— David Stove

Explanations don't comfort. You won't feel better if you know why. It won't hurt any less.

— Rick Warren

“The easiest explanations are often the right ones.”

— Hanya Yanagihara

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

— Peter Weir